Charles Dickens Quotes

I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Of course, I've known people who have mental difficulties, so I know how fragile people's psyches are and how little it can take to overbalance somebody.

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it's open season on anybody who stutters.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

It's easier to say people are crazy than to try to figure out why.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.