Alex Campbell Quotes

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

I am not a madman or a nut.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

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

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I've been insane from a very early age.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.