Seanan McGuire Quotes

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Everyone says to you, 'if you play Ophelia, you'll end up crazy,' but we're all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, and I think that if you approach it that way it's not such an intimidating issue.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

I've been called crazy many times before.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.