I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.
I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.
My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.
Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.
I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.
