Jo Nesbo Quotes

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

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

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

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.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

It would be an outrage against civilization if he were sent to jail for an act which was the product of a diseased brain

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.

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

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.

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.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

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.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.