"I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me."
- Jonathan Harnisch
"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."
- Juliette Lewis
"When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn't believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines ..."
- Taylor Armstrong
"Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pai..."
- Theodore J. Kaczynski
"Psychos are in uniform circulation in society."
- Pawan Mishra
"You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter unc..."
- Ramana Pemmaraju
"The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing."
- Joss Sheldon
"For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!"
- Stanley Victor Paskavich
"Rikki looked over at me.“Why now?" she asked, looking back at Arly. “Why is this happening now?""Hard to say." Arly [therapist] replied. "DID usually gets diagnosed in adulthood. Something happens tha..."
- Cameron West
"Admitting the need for help may also compound the survivor's sense of defeat. The therapists Inger Agger and Soren Jensen, who work with political refugees, describe the case of K, a torture survivor ..."
- Judith Lewis Herman