Quotes About Mental Patients

#1. Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.

Meghan Blistinsky

#2. I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

#3. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Nelson DeMille

#4. Subjects in the experiments were sometimes unwitting civilians. At other times they were soldiers, prisoners, mental patients, sex offenders, cancer patients and other individuals who were unwitting, or who could not give meaningful informed consent.

Colin A. Ross

#5. For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.

Ann Coulter

#6. Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Karl Abraham

#7. In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Thomas Szasz

#8. The door is always open. You don't think I'd stay locked up in here with a load of mental patients, do you?

Paulo Coelho

#9. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

Kristen Stewart

#10. Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#11. 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

#12. closed my eyes tight then opened them and asked softly, "You love me?" "Baby, you were made for me.

Kristen Ashley

#13. Never let a name or circumstances define you. Rise above it and one day you'll realize you're worth fighting for"

-That Girl.

H.J. Bellus

#14. People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#15. He pretended they were someone else's parents or recently released patients from a mental hospital who had arbitrarily chosen to root for him. Mainly, he figured they were a little goofy, but that was okay.

Paul Levine

#16. Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

Thomas R. Insel

#17. Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#18. A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

Gerald Jonas

#19. Moral beauty, so Gerard Manley Hopkins said, is dangerous. If such individuals could take his advice to meet it, then let it alone, things would be easier. But it is just which they can not do.

R.D. Laing

#20. In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. There probably are, but you would need a thaumaturge for that.
They have books upon books of old magic. We only have Google.

Victoria Escobar

#22. It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.

Will Rogers

#23. Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.

Ted Agon

#24. They are that that talks of going
But never gets away.

Robert Frost

#25. I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

Erika M. Anderson

#26. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

#27. The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

Sherry Turkle

#28. You're going to drive me crazy, aren't you," Hank said.
"Crazy is an ambiguous term with no clinical meaning, and it's insulting to mental health patients. Can you be more specific?

Eli Easton

#29. You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Michael Chang

#30. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...

Shannon Celebi

#31. There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

Steven Klein

#32. Patients with psoriatic arthritis often complain of fatigue. It may be defined as an overwhelming, sustained sense of exhaustion and reduced capacity for physical and mental work. Fatigue

Dafna Gladman

#33. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Daniel H. Wilson

#34. Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

Dee Williams