Psychiatric Condition Quotes

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

I can't be normal. I'm probably bipolar.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

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

It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the right medication to deal with my specific illness.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

In a psychiatric hospital, a lot of people believe that people on TV are talking to them directly through the screen. I'm with about 500 of these people, and I'm on TV every Friday night. As I was queuing up for breakfast one morning, one guy nearly jumped out of his skin. My first thought was to go 'Woooo!'

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.

There are many different forms of bipolar and the way that it expresses itself.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.