Claud Pacillo

“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.”
― Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

“My life isn't good or bad. It's an incredible series of emotional and mental extremes, with beautiful thunderstorms and stunning sunrises.

Some would say this is my artistic temperament. Others would say i am mentally ill or bipolar. I SAY... it's a bit of both and i make the most of them, CREATIVELY.”
― Jaeda DeWalt

“A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.”
― Merri Lisa Johnson

“Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!”
― Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace