My good fortune is not that I’ve recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
– Elyn R Saks
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- Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Always give chance for the things you don’t want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you’ll ever have. – Elyn Balongcas
- I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness – a real thorough-going illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
- Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will. – Otto Weininger
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- I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life. – Clive Culverhouse
- I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. – Clive Culverhouse
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- Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- When you have mental illness it’s common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn’t happen if they knew the pain you were in. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. – Thomas J Scheff
- Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. – Rebecca McNutt
- There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it’s called Understanding – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. – Sally Graham
- In the terms of ‘Mental Illness’ Isn’t stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent – Elizabeth Wurtzel
- It is in my head! That’s why it’s called Mental Illness. – Roni AskeyDoran
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- I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- As special as it is to listen to your friends argue over whether or not you have a mental illness,I’m starting to get the urge to go back to class. – Kendare Blake
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- If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. – Barbara Ehrenreich
- Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! – Patrick W Corrigan
- I have a mental illness, but that doesn’t stop me from being mentally capable. – Lisa M Cronkhite
- It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon. – Charles Bramesco
- I’ve accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that’s where I draw the line – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness. – Don Roff
- Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism. – Shannon L Alder
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- Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. – Bill Clinton
- There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul. – R Alan Woods