Mental Illness Coping Quotes

“There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Freak

“Rough week, right?

Listen, every book in your home is one of us saying to you, please hold on until the end. We want you to stay with us so we can all see, together, how it all turns out. You're not alone. One of us is with you all the time. Hold on tight. See you next week.”
― Warren Ellis

“Sometimes we walk in sunlight with everyone else. Sometimes we live underwater and fight and grow. And sometimes... ...sometimes we fly.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time: desert monuments rising over the mesquite in mysterious history, edges where trails run out, coyote holes playing tricks on my feet, where the trickster loiters and dissipates. I then repeat the depressive cycles a second night under the overpass of a night-time highway, then a third night in the neon passages of the Great Horned Owl – before finally LogoCorp rescues me, putting me back together again Humpty Dumpty-like.”
― Randolph Crowley, Great & Mighty Things: Randolph Crowley’s General and Common Refutation of the LogoCorp Cult

“He had tricked her. She'd been right not to trust him. Well, it wouldn't happen again. No chance in hell!”
― Diana Stevan, The Rubber Fence

“With the subject of work off limits, they lapsed into a silence they couldn't recover from, leaving Joanna to wonder how she could feel so lonely in the company of the man she loved.”
― Diana Stevan, The Rubber Fence

“Mental illness do not designate a set path to failure. It’s simply a chemical or hormone imbalance that causes individuals to accept and process new information in a different way.”
― Okisha Jackson, In His Service, Love Always, Ms. Jackson

“If you are feeling bad, don't jump to conclusions. Don't react to people or situations quickly. Sometimes it's best to let them sit and marinate for awhile. If you've given it a week or so and you still feel like this is an issue that needs to be addressed, go ahead and address it then. You'll have a better handle on your emotions and hopefully you will have used that time to articulate specifically what the issue is so when you communicate with someone about it, you can be better understood.”
― Mequell W. Buck, A Guide to Thriving With Mental Illness

“You just try to get through the day. The small stuff—waiting on a bus, eating, having a simple conversation—is too much to bear, and you fight to make it through the next minute without screaming. You look around at people going about their day—smiling, laughing, having meaningless encounters and conversations as if living was effortless, and you curse yourself and your mind and you wonder if someday things will get easier, and you become terrified of what will happen if they don’t.”
― Scott Gordon, Head Fake