Mental Health Crisis Quotes

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Consciousness is a disease.

They've lost their minds.

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Who wouldn't be depressed living in a society that can't agree on reality, let alone health-care policy?

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

I hate myself, and I want to die

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I've been insane from a very early age.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

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

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

There are many diseased minds in this country.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

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.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

The emotions suppressed during the long, tense period of global warfare were released by peace, and erupted into a tornado-like explosion of violent feelings, abusive criticism of the military, and aggressive pressures on Congress for fundamental reforms in the court-martial system.