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“Mental illnesses are, in fact, major killers, not by homicide but by suicide. There are over 47,000 suicide deaths in the U.S. each year, the equivalent of a mass shooting of 129 people each day, every day. That is a suicide every 11 minutes.”
― Thomas Insel, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

“Not only are there nearly three times more suicides than homicides each year, but suicide as a cause of medical mortality surpasses breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS. At least two thirds, some would say 90 percent, of suicides result from depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or one of the other categories of mental illness.”
― Thomas Insel, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

“What I can confirm, though, is that if you can adopt the outlook we’re exploring here even just a little—if you can hold your attention, however briefly or occasionally, on the sheer astonishingness of being, and on what a small amount of that being you get—you may experience a palpable shift in how it feels to be here, right now, alive in the flow of time.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays