Hermann Hesse Quotes

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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

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

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Oh yeah, I've been in therapy in and out of my whole life.

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.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

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

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

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

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

There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.