Quotes About Mental Health Disorders

#1. [L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.

Ian Sansom

#2. 1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

Ruby Wax

#3. Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.

Marlene Steinberg

#4. As a man believes, so he will act.

Sam Harris

#5. AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

Kevin Lynch

#6. When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows.

Frederick Bushnell "Jack" Ryder

#7. Teaching a boy the discipline required for riding and training, as well as self-denial, put him on a road to the sort of self-fulfilment that he might never have dreamed about or have been able to achieve on his own. It gave him his first sense of possibility. The

Chris Froome

#8. The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Andrea Dworkin

#9. Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.

Anita Johnston

#10. The reason I don't Kill Myself
is because I know I can.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. You don't make peace with your friends.

Barack Obama

#12. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Ruby Wax

#13. According to National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the following anxiety disorders exist within adults with Asperger's: 1. Panic Disorder 2. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 3. Social Anxiety Disorder / Social Phobia 4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Leslie Burby

#14. When you walk into a room every chick there forgets she is with the guy standing right next to her and wishes she was with you,

Quinn Loftis

#15. Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

Nancy Tucker

#16. Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

Mother Teresa

#17. Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be classified as neurotypical. Idiots and geniuses, maids and doctors. Nobody's got it all figured out.

Jael McHenry

#18. You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.

R. YS Perez

#19. Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Pablo Picasso

#20. Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.

Santosh Kalwar

#21. Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

John Seely Brown

#22. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#23. While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

Lee Ann Hoff

#24. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

Cecily McMillan

#25. Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

Marlene Steinberg

#27. Unlike 'mere' medical or physical disorders, mental disorders are not just problems. If successfully navigated, they can also present opportunities. Simply acknowledging this can empower people to heal themselves and, much more than that, to grow from their experiences.

Neel Burton

#28. There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.

Danny Wedding

#29. For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#30. The fear, though, is unassailable. The dark balls of dread pinball through my brain. This is what anxiety does to a brain, I know that. A barrage of intrusive, unwanted, and distressing thoughts that the person thinking them can't turn them off no matter how hard they try...

Lauren Miller

#31. Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

#32. The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.

Tiffany Madison

#33. What was wrong with me? Why could I not just flip the switch and see all the brightness ahead if only I chose the correct path? Or rather, why could I see the correct path but not choose to tread upon it?

Hanne Arts

#34. There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life ... We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.

Elyn R. Saks

#35. Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

Steven Magee

#36. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

#37. Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Vironika Tugaleva

#38. You don't have to be educated to be a president.

Julius Malema