Quotes About Mental Illness Treatment

#1. Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

Itay Talgam

#2. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Wallace Stevens

#3. You can't assume everything's okay inside the house just because the paint isn't peeling and the yard is neatly mowed.

Emily Bleeker

#4. She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Alice Hoffman

#5. With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)

Robert Whitaker

#6. There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

Francoise Sagan

#7. Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I'm not ashamed of my illness. I've been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

Meg Haston

#9. I close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what's happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is believing that I'm strong enough and will recognize when I'm not. - Emma

Rebecca Donovan

#10. Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Johnny Rich

#11. I'm a big music fan outside of the music I make.

Ryan Adams

#12. Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.

David Lovelace

#14. I am growing to hate the vague declarations of psychiatric treatment, the airy cross-your-fingers pronouncements. The treatment of mental health is an inexact science. But, as I am slowly coming to understand, depression is an inexact illness.

Sally Brampton

#15. I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

John Amaechi

#16. Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community.

Kate Clifford Larson

#17. Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

Rosalynn Carter

#18. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#19. We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

Rob Delaney

#20. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#21. The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.

Thomas Szasz

#22. I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)

Michael Greenberg

#23. 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

#24. I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.

Patrick Ness

#25. A start up messed up at the foundation cannot be fixed.

Peter Thiel

#26. 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