Mental Disorder Awareness Quotes & Sayings

A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough. — Robert Jordan

I want to win a gold medal in London. — Kerri Walsh

Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift. — David Foster Wallace

PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do. — Paul Simon

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs. — Kiera Van Gelder

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand. — Miroslav Volf

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. — Gabriela Sabatini

A good cook is always the first one into the kitchen every morning and the last one to go home at night. — Terry Pratchett

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' "
"Me, too," I said. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do. — Patrick Rothfuss

Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006). Mental activity, in which we engage all the time, may or may not be accompanied by behavioral actions. It is essential that you become aware of, learn to tolerate and regulate, and even change major mental actions that affect your current life, such as negative beliefs, and feelings or reactions to the past the interfere with the present. However, it is impossible to change inner experiences if you are avoiding them because you are afraid, ashamed or disgusted by them. Serious avoidance of you inner experiences is called experiential avoidance (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, & Follettte, 1996), or the phobia of inner experience (Steele, Van der Hart, & Nijenhuis, 2005; Van der Hart et al., 2006). — Suzette Boon

The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture on atoms and molecules, one of his students came to him with the question, "Professor, what is your idea of the structure of the atom." "What," said Kelvin, "The structure of the atom? Why, don't you know, the very word 'atom' means the thing that can't be cut. How then can it have a structure?" "That," remarked the facetious young man, "shows the disadvantage of knowing Greek." — Arthur Compton

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff:
Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. — Horace Walpole

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. — Dean Koontz

On its own, my internal dissociated part now came to the surface, and I found myself hiding from everyone. I still was not connecting it to the dream I'd had. At one time I had thought I could control these sudden episodes, but I was apparently mistaken. I had grown very unsure about every facet of my mental health. A disturbed part of me was taking over and I was terrified. I began to wonder if Big Suzie would completely cease to exist. — Suzie Burke