Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
There is nothing more terrifying than a devious person who takes delight in their own mischief
What I failed to see was that, by ending my life, I would cause interminable pain to my family and friends. I could not understand the heartbreak it would cause those around me. Nor did I consider tha...
I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.
If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
Do you still have any delusions? For instance, does the furniture threaten you like you said the bureau did at home?" "No, not really. That bureau at the end of my bed here got a little threatening th...
Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficie...
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to...
A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the...
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line
My life isn't good or bad. It's an incredible series of emotional and mental extremes, with beautiful thunderstorms and stunning sunrises.Some would say this is my artistic temperament. Others would s...
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the t...
I thought of my mother and her wise advice. She'd always been there for me. Even when I was at my worst. She made me want to be a better son.
I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.
One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intert...
Many wish to believe that the odd is not so odd, the bizarre not so bizarre, and there is little changing of minds once they are set. There are only so many ways to understand the strange and disorder...
I was always a good girl. I was a straight-A student, top of my class. I did as I was told. I was polite to my elders. I was good to my siblings. I went to church. It was very easy to hide how very ba...