Severely Mentally Ill Quotes & Sayings

Mental illness doesn't cause abusiveness any more than alcohol does. What happens is rather that the man's psychiatric problem interacts with his abusiveness to form a volatile combination. If he is severely depressed, for example, he may stop caring about the consequences his actions may cause him to suffer, which can increase the danger that he will decide to commit a serious attack against his partner or children. A mentally ill abuser has two separate - though interrelated - problems, just as the alcoholic or drug-addicted one does. — Lundy Bancroft

I like this idea of becoming fully realised. — Chris Pine

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck. — L. Ron Hubbard

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. — Brian Herbert

Master Bates sauntering along with his hands in his pockets ... — Charles Dickens

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. — Theodore Roosevelt

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups. — Jon Kyl

When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you. — Nutan Bajracharya

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed? — Alix Kates Shulman

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn. — Eudora Welty

I'm a product of my time. I'm not a criminal. — Svetlana Alexievich

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin

I'm calling a meeting in my suite tonight for all employees - and interns. I'll see you both there."

Then he's gone, the crowd parting before him as he moves through the booth.

"Jesus," I say. The guy's truly in his own category.

"A bit more like Moses at the moment," Mia says. — Noelle August