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Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I" is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness.


Shannon L. Alder

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WHEN "I" BECOMES "WE",EVEN "ILLNESS" BECOMES "WELLNESS"
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MADCHEN AMICK Mental illness is an illness , not an excuse for irresponsibility .
TALITHA DAY FAIR Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
ABHIJIT NASKAR People get really irritated by mental illness.
MARIA BAMFORD Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a ...
LISA GARDNER The nation is turning its back on people with mental illness right now.
JOHN PINKERTON I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me...
JONATHAN HARNISCH Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "s...
SHANNON L. ALDER Mental illness existed in America 200 or 300 years ago, only under a different name. We've developed...
KATHLEEN GERSON Mental Illness Healthcare in Arizona.
AMY DAVIS My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such...
ELLA WOODWARD The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
PENN JILLETTE Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
KARL KRAUSS Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure
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ERIC MCCORMACK The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would hea...
ANDY BEHRMAN It's not a mental illness, it's a medical condition.
DALE NEAMAN I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just w...
DANIEL CRAIG Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our
GEORGE VAILLANT Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness
RICHARD CARLSON Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
RICHARD CARLSON I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
KIRSTIE ALLEY A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madnes...
CAITLíN R. KIERNAN The man reeks of mental illness. I can taste his pathology... Goes well with my palette.
JUDITTA SALEM It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
MADCHEN AMICK If depression is a mental illness then love has to be one too.
CARL WHITE The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented. from the book"Total Wel...
DR. JOSEPH PIZZORNO What people don't understand is that mental illness affects one out of five families in America. It'...
BERNIE BLOCK Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and Ame...
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain o...
NATHAN FILER Here's the hell of it: madness doesn't announce itself. There isn't time to prepare for its coming. ...
MARYA HORNBACHER My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely pla...
MARYA HORNBACHER I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather...
SYLVIA PLATH The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
VICTOR LAVALLE Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been po...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. ...
DANIEL CRAIG Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
KARL KRAUS The authors analyzed 695 news items. The content of 47.9% (n = 333) of the articles was not strictly...
ENRIC ARAGONèS But regardless of the number, it is the right thing to do for individuals with mental illness.
MARILYN COOK Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number...
ELYN R. SAKS I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's l...
MARTIN SELIGMAN I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipo...
KANGANA RANAUT A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understandi...
CHRIS WOOD Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes...
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; ...
MICHAELA HAZE You would suspect that in a case like this, the likelihood of mental illness is there.
EDWARD HUNG For a person who isn't able to work, because of their mental illness, they end up on a fixed income ...
LUELLA SANDERS We can be with friends and have fun without feeling guilty or feeling like a burden. People don't un...
JEAN WEBB In legal terms, we are not talking legal insanity, but he does suffer from mental illness.
DON SAMUEL In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.
MARK RUFFALO Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
BILL CLINTON There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
THOMAS SZASZ Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
ELIZABETH WURTZEL I have a mind like a sieve,
where sadness sits
and happiness slips
KARA PETROVIC Mental illnesses grab you by the leg, screaming, and chow you down whole.They make you selfish. They...
HOLLY BOURNE But Hey, Guess What
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go...
ELLEN HOPKINS I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy th...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the r...
VIKRAM PATEL Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression...
DAVID LEVITHAN Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN .The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whol...
JOHN GREEN Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have...
SUSANNA KAYSEN The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -...
PHILIP K. DICK If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country d...
ROBERT WHITAKER If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
TAMARA IRELAND STONE Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.
JOSEPH STEFANO If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and t...
FRAN LEBOWITZ One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's de...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on ...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "vi...
SUSAN SONTAG Treating mental illness saves all of us money. Take addiction. We heard testimony that for every dol...
KATHLEEN VINEHOUT It's the same mental illness, and it's based on paranoid ideations. He believes people are out to ki...
JOSEPH ABOOD It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog,...
HEATHER ARMSTRONG To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we ...
GILBERT HERDT Everybody can talk about family members who have mental health problems, and there is rarely a famil...
DAVID SWANN There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY She never let her illness get her down. I never once saw her without a smile on her face. She was so...
LEANN SCHMIDT I don't think we define our lives by our illness. We define ourselves by how we live.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN The majority of our patients are dually-diagnosed. They either have a mental illness and a drug or a...
BILL ELLIOTT I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness b...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness
WILLIAM BLASE Basically if an idea sounds like a project that will help people with mental illness, and has no app...
BOB HARMS Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I b...
DEB CALETTI To think too much is a disease.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on thi...
MATT HAIG Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense...
ELYN SAKS Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond an...
GREG ANDERSON I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that th...
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SHANNON L. ALDER Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they rea...
SHANNON L. ALDER You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neith...
SHANNON L. ALDER People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them a...
SHANNON L. ALDER victim
noun \ˈvik-təm\

1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder...
SHANNON L. ALDER Feelings are something you have; not something you are.
SHANNON L. ALDER The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his c...
SHANNON L. ALDER A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience th...
SHANNON L. ALDER Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.
SHANNON L. ALDER Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you fin...
SHANNON L. ALDER Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-e...
SHANNON L. ALDER Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
SHANNON L. ALDER Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The ...
SHANNON L. ALDER The only person that should wear your ring is the one person that would never…

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SHANNON L. ALDER Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
SHANNON L. ALDER It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys t...
SHANNON L. ALDER When I was a child, an angel came to say,
A true friend is coming my warrior to sweep you away,...
SHANNON L. ALDER When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of "second chances". Their eulogy is a reminder t...
SHANNON L. ALDER One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many pe...
SHANNON L. ALDER Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
SHANNON L. ALDER You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.
SHANNON L. ALDER Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!
SHANNON L. ALDER If he emotionally cheated on you remember this before you take him back. It was a choice to do it an...
SHANNON L. ALDER The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling the...
SHANNON L. ALDER A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to...
SHANNON L. ALDER Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading the...
SHANNON L. ALDER I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually,...
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