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Quotes tagged “Mental Illness”

“It’s gross, and it shows how unwilling we are to understand substance abuse — or kill the stigma around it.”
— Miles Klee, It Wouldn’t Kill You to Be a Little Nicer to Ben Affleck
Tagged: Addiction, Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, Celebrities
“Your body starts to become aware of what you're doing.”
— Ashly Perez, What You Don't Know About Ashly
Tagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health, trichotillomania, Trich, hair pulling, ocd, obsessive compulsive disorder
“But what ended up happening was that the restraining order I had against my shitty emotions expired and showed up on my doorstep being like, 'Got a cig? We need to talk.'”
— Ryan O’Connell, Anxious Annie
Tagged: Anxiety, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Repressing Your Feelings
“David, your whole life people have told you you were sick. What if I told you that’s a lie? What if I told you every memory you have of mental illness… the voices, hallucination… was just your power? And what if I could do more than just tell you? What if I could show you? Help you rewrite the story of your life?”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 2
Tagged: Rewriting Life, Mental Illness, They're Wrong
“I tell them I’m sane, they think I’m crazy, and if I say, “You know what? You’re right, I am crazy,” then they up my dosage.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: crazy, Sanity, Mental Illness
“If the idea of illness can become illness, what else about our reality is actually a disorder?”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: Reality, Illness, Mental Illness
“It’s just Thursday. My 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship Mental Health.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Schizophrenia
“Please keep talking so we can all pretend that our problems are just in our heads.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Keep Talking, Problems, All In Your Head, Mental Illness
“We moved through a city of normals, soldiers in a secret war. We were the ghosts in a haunted house, the golem of myth. To the normal, we were just superstition, make-believe. Sometimes it felt like that to us too. To me, I was a woman who couldn’t be touched, in love with a man who wasn’t there. What was real?”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 4
Tagged: normal, Mental Illness, What Is Real
“You know the most dangerous thing about schizophrenia? The most dangerous thing is believing you don’t have it. That’s the trick. The mind killer. Your disease convinces you, you don’t have it. So, for example, one day in the hospital, you meet a girl and she has some friends and they tell you you’re not sick. You have super powers. And more than anything, you wanna believe it because that means you’re not crazy. It means you can fall in love and live happily ever after. But you know if you believe it if you surrender to the hope and you’re wrong, then you’re never coming back.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 8
Tagged: Schizophrenia, Mental Illness
“The only time I ever done it, I was going through a manic phase, so I feel like I'm a virgin again.”
— Erin Silver, 90210, Season 2: Javianna
Tagged: Manic, Mental Illness, virgin, Born Again Virgin, Sex, humor, Witty
“To me, my brain wasn’t beautiful; it was excessively complex.”
— Brianne Allen, When Depression Runs in the Family
Tagged: Depression, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Family
“The conversation needs to be louder.”
— Melanie Mignucci, We Asked 584 Women How The Conversation Around Mental Health Needs To Change
Tagged: Mental Health, mental wellness, Mental Illness
“Saying suicide is selfish is saying, 'Although I don’t understand clinical depression & suicide I’m going to judge people who die from it even if causes unimaginable pain + trauma and stigmatizes mental illness because it makes me feel better + safer.'”
— Brené Brown
Tagged: Suicide, Depression, Mental Illness, Mental Health
“The problem with the prettification of mental illness is just how out-of-kilter it is with reality. It’s almost suggested as a desirable character trait for women to have.”
— Rhiannon Picton-James, Please Stop Merchandising Mental Illness
Tagged: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Trauma
“Murdock: TRAAAAAASH BAGS! I want TRAAAAAASH BAGS! [gets one and stops shouting]

Psychiatrist: We give him one, and he shuts up for a couple of hours.

Face: Hmmm. Interesting. If I could talk to him, I might be able to determine if it's a genuine neurotic fixation or if our boy is trying to section eight his way into the soft walls of a prison psych ward.

Psychiatrist: I sure would appreciate that. None of us can get any sleep around here.”
— 'Howling Mad' Murdock, The A-Team, Season 1: Pros and Cons
Tagged: Mental Illness, neurotic
“Murdock: [from inside padded cell] TRAAAAASH BAGS! I want TRAAAAASH BAGS! I want 'em! I want 'em!!

Psychiatrist: [To guard] Do we have any trash bags? Maybe he'll put his head inside and suffocate.”
— 'Howling Mad' Murdock, The A-Team, Season 1: Pros and Cons
Tagged: padded cell, Psychiatry, Mental Illness
“FYI, when you pass judgment on someone who’s struggles with mental health ended in suicide, you’re telling the folks in your life who’re also struggling that they can’t trust you or seek your help. Mental illness isn’t a moral failing or something solved with money or fame. Please stop.”
— Franchesca Ramsey
Tagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Suicide
“Marion: No one on my side of the family ever went to a psychiatrist.

Howard: Well, my side of the family is perfectly normal, Marion. I mean, they don't even have to read Dear Abby.

Marion: What about your Aunt Louise who lives in a bomb shelter?

Howard: When the big one drops, who'll be crazy then?”
— Marion Cunningham, Happy Days, Season 2: You Go to My Head
Tagged: Psychiatrist, Mental Illness, crazy, Dear Abby
“Your mental health is always worth investing in, and there are always options that can work with your budget.”
— JR Thorpe, What To Do If You Can't Afford Therapy, According To An Expert
Tagged: therapy, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Therapists

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