I will be stronger than my sadness.
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Jasmine Warga
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
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Shannon L. Alder
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.
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Osamu Dazai
He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to...
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Jasmine Warga
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By Elyn R. Saks
Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in...
Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.
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.
In my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
