mental-illness-quotes

On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

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.

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.

Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the patient could not possibly have MPD because _he was aware of the other alters [sic!].