Nellie Bly Quotes

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

The state must concern itself with all institutions for those with damaged minds.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.