“Well I thought it was murder, and I felt I had done all the other sins, and now this one would be the last one, the last one of the sins.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“There was [sic] the thoughts about the TVs, and cameras in the house, and afraid Satan would ruin my children through himself, and that maybe even that I had some Satan in me.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, I didn’t want them ruined, and I was afraid being around him, they would continue to go downhill. And I thought I should save them before that happened.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I didn’t think I was getting better. One time I drew water in the tub, and Rusty worried about that, why I did it, and he took me back in the hospital.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“What does it say about the continuing stigma of mental illness that so many of us feel comfortable discussing our illegal drug use, but depression is a secret too embarrassing to share?”— Ayelet Waldman, medium.com
“Anxiety is like that mean girl from junior high who was always there to point out my flaws, only she lives inside my head.”— Bridget Todd, manrepeller.com
“There was another epidemic that was not talked about much, a silent scourge—the explosion of mental illness: major depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic-depression, personality disorders, grief response, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, etc.—on a scale none of us had ever wit…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Anxiety isn't being nervous. Anxiety is being in a situation that others find fine but your stomach is in knots and your mind is on fire. Anxiety is looking around you and convincing yourself that everyone hates you. Anxiety is every terrifying scenario compacted into one moment.”— Aaron Gillies, twitter.com
“Whenever we lose an artist as a result of their mental illness it is hard, particularly when the artists has helped me and so many others briefly unravel ourselves from the yarn of our own mental illnesses.”— Hanif Abdurraqib, twitter.com
“Symptoms of PPP can be extreme; delusions are common. In my mother’s case, she was convinced that I was sick and she needed to keep me home to protect me.”— Nyna Giles, lennyletter.com
“At some point, this creator of music struggled with his own connection and his own relationship with Life. At some point, maybe you have too.”— Ivy Kwong, medium.com
“What's with this sudden choice of disorders we get right now? When I was a kid, we just had crazy people. That's it, just crazy people.”— Ellen Degeneres, imdb.com
“The notion that people who take medication for mental illness are weak seems rooted in internalized social stigma.”— Danielle Tcholakian, thecut.com
“Mental illness is the fashionable explanation for sin.”— Tim Minear, Sister Jude, Jessica Lange, imdb.com
“With great power comes great mental illness.”— Aïda Mashaka Croal, Robert "Whizzer" Coleman, Jay Klaitz, imdb.com
“Lobotomies are considered to be the surgery of the soul. Doctors like Walter Freeman claimed they could cure a number of mental illnesses. He believed the procedure could relieve suffering.”— Erica Messer, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com
“Really from a young age, my story was darkness, pain, self-injury, suicide attempts and loss. I spent my adolescent years not knowing who I was, struggling with mental illness, struggling with self-destruction, rage, and all the other things that are part of mental illness and part of people who hav…”— Amy Bleuel, underthelabels.wordpress.com
“Growing up for me I experienced some great pain, from abuse, to rape, to even the loss of my own father to suicide. Not only did I already struggle with my own mental illness, but to have these experiences it further my depression to thoughts and attempts of suicide.”— Amy Bleuel, medium.com