There’s a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life.... We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources. Elyn R. Saks
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,...
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Jane Austen
I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.
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Karl Pilkington
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
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C. Joybell C.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to...
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David Sedaris
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.
