It has many forms, not all of which look like what you see in movies.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste
I just want to get away from me.
Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.
I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empt...
Schizo. It didn't matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn't the same thing. It just wasn't. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one...
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
I have spent years ... clinging to the understanding that Iwas a defective biological unit .... This may truly be a valuableperspective for those who observe mental illness, but forme, as a subject, t...
The main reason why clinicians may not diagnose personality disorders is that they think that doing so supports therapeutic pessimism. Recent research has shown this is not true; most patients get bet...
I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.
What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I'm not sure if I'm mad or sane. I mean, I hold my life togethe...
Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.
Today I am a lens, a pen, a gun."--p. 1 ...Before My Eyes...look for it on 2.11.14
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight...
Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clu...
The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.