David Mitchell Quotes

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

Seriousness is a disease.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.