#mental-illness

"You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride."

"In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable."

"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 be over."

"One in four people have a mental illness. You can be the one to make it two in four, if you’ll join me for a dance."

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

"Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees."

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

"If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."

"I will be stronger than my sadness."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

"God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again."

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

"Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues"say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I"is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness."