Mental Disorder Quotes

“Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain.”
― Ellen Forney

“For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“I can remember only one thing.
I want to be bigger.
I want to be better.
I want - people -, to need me.”
― Gian Andrea, Ripped

“Someone asked me recently, what it is like to live with OCD. I paused for a while and said, imagine watching your sibling getting run over by a truck in front of your eyes, not once, not twice, but repeatedly like in a looped video, or your child getting beaten up at school, or your partner getting abused by strangers on the street - and the only way you can stop that event from happening is to keep on repeating the task that you were carrying out when the vision first appeared in your mind, until some other less emotionally agonizing thought breaks the loop of that particular vision and replaces it - and though you know, it's just a thought and not the destiny of the people you love, you feel it excruciatingly necessary to keep repeating the task until the thought passes, so that nothing bad happens to your loved ones - and that's what it is like inside the head of a person with OCD, every moment of their life.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“how very, very tired I am with this hidden battle for my own thoughts, the burden of counting, the work it takes to hide it.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky

“Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.”
― Marlene Steinberg, Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.”
― Joss Sheldon, The Little Voice

“Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.”
― Steven Magee

“Schizo. It didn't matter how many times Dr. Gill compared it to a disease or physical disability, it wasn't the same thing. It just wasn't. I had schizophrenia. If I saw two guys on the sidewalk, one in a wheelchair and one talking talking to himself, which would I rush to open a door for, and which would I cross the road to avoid?”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning

“The truth is schizophrenic and has as many faces as there are people.”
― Roel Hollander

“Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.”
― Steven Magee

“Solomon had good days and he had bad days, but the good had far outnumbered the bad since Lisa and Clark had started coming around. Sometimes, though, they'd show up and he's look completely exhausted, drained of all his charm and moving in slow motion. They could do that to him—the attacks. Something about the physical response to panic can drain all the energy out of a person, and it doesn't matter what causes it or how long it lasts. What Solomon had was unforgiving and sneaky and as smart as any other illness. It was like a virus or cancer that would hide just long enough to fool him into thinking it was gone. And because it showed up when it damn well pleased, he'd learned to be honest about it, knowing that embarrassment only made it worse.”
― John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

“My client who has only three alter personalities besides the ANP was unaware of her multiplicity until she encountered a work-related trauma at age sixty. She became symptomatic as the hidden parts emerged to deal with the recent trauma.”
― Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55”
― Marlene Steinberg, Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

“While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn’t it lovely to say, “He/She suffers of Poetry?”.”
― Ioana Cristina Casapu

“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 she was aware of the other alters [sic!].”
― Richard P. Kluft

“He was like a cupboard rammed full with junk: when he opened the door everything fell out; it took time to reorganise himself.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit

“It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.”
― Marlene Steinberg, Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

“She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For

“those glasses aren't for the sun they're for darkness, exclaims Rue. Sometimes when we harvest through the night, they'll pass out a few pairs to those of us highest in the trees. Where the torchlight doesn't reach. One time, this boy Martin, he tried to keep his pair. Hid it in his pants. They killed him on the spot. They killed a boy for taking these/ I say Yes. and everyone knew he was no danger. Martin wasn't right in the head. I mean he still acted like a three year old. He just wanted the glasses to play with, says Rue. Hearing this makes me feel like District 12 is some sort of safe haven. Of course, people keel over from starvation all the time, but I can't imagine the peacekeepers murdering a simpleminded child. There's a little girl, one of greasy sae's gradkids, who wanders around the Hob. She's not quite right but she's treated as a sort of pet. People toss her scraps and things.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much con- fusion in the past, and inappropriate treatment.
Nonpsychotic depression (major depression and dysthymia), anxiety disorders and somatization disorders are not diagnostically exclusionary, but may cause significant symptom overlap. Careful attention to the timing and correlation of symptoms, and a search for those characteristics of the symptoms that help to differentiate between diagnoses may be informative, e.g., exercise will tend to ameliorate depression whereas excessive exercise tends to have an adverse effect on ME/CFS patients.”
― Bruce M. Carruthers

“Но есть одна вещь, которая ее действительно мучает — это торт. Он вызывает у нее жгучее чувство стыда, и она ничего не может с этим поделать. Это всего лишь сахар, мука и яйца; неизбежное несовершенство — часть очарования самодельного торта. Она это понимает, прекрасно понимает. И тем не менее она надеялась на что-то более прекрасное и значительное, чем то, что вышло, несмотря на безупречную поверхность и аккуратную надпись. Она хотела бы (нельзя этого не признать) испечь такой торт, который фактически бы представлял воплощенную мечту об идеальном торте, торте, который дарит вам безусловное и глубокое ощущение уюта и щедрости. Она хотела бы сделать торт, исцеляющий от печали, пусть ненадолго. Она хотела бы создать что-то замечательное, что-то такое, что было бы признано выдающимся даже теми, кто не испытывает лично к ней никакой симпатии.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Maybe my addictive tendencies weren't limited to my zest for things I could drink. Like maybe (I learned while working with my therapist) I had broader issues with control and addiction and using substances to dial down my anxiety. And maybe self-medication is a real dangerous way of trying to quiet the noise of a mental health disorder. And maybe alcoholism also runs in the family.”
― Anne T. Donahue, Nobody Cares

“Anxiety is the starting point of any mental disorder.”
― pranita deshpande

“You can paint a wall, put nails in it, hang pictures on it. Even a wall is receptive, why can't you? For once, absorb my words instead of reacting to them.”
― Shunya

“The SCID-D may be used to assess the nature and severity of dissociative symptoms in a variety of Axis I and II psychiatric disorders, including the Anxiety Disorders (such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] and Acute Stress Disorder), Affective Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Eating Disorders, and Personality Disorders.

The SCID-D was developed to reduce variability in clinical diagnostic procedures and was designed for use with psychiatric patients as well as with nonpatients (community subjects or research subjects in primary care).”
― Marlene Steinberg, Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders

“The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded”
― Sunday Adelaja

“In this paper I propose the existence of two distinct presentations of DID, a Stable and an Active one. While people with Stable DID struggle with their traumatic past, with triggers that re-evoke that past and with the problems of daily functioning with severe dissociation, people with Active DID are, in addition, also engaged in a life of current, on-going involvement in abusive relationships, and do not respond to treatment in the same way as other DID patients. The paper observes these two proposed DID presentations in the context of other trauma-based disorders, through the lens of their attachment relationship. It proposes that the type, intensity and frequency of relational trauma shape—and can thus predict—the resulting mental disorder.
- Through the lens of attachment relationship: Stable DID, Active DID and other trauma-based mental disorders”
― Adah Sachs