{"quotes":[{"text":"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blessings","choices","compassion","empathy","faith","family","family-s-our-forever","fights","forgiving","healing","illness","learning","lessons","loss-of-family","loss-of-sister","love","mending","mental-disorders","misunderstanding","never-or-forever","obedience","redemption","religion","repairing","restoring","sisters","spiritual-journeys","spiritual-paths","tests","trials","wellness"],"id":6611,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression like an ocean, unsurmountable. It swallows me whole and gnaws at my very bones. It floods me over and over, drowning me over and over... It is a torturous broken record player with a scratched disc on repeat, the wailing disrupting any possible good remaining after the tsunami. It wails and wails inside my ribcage and inside my skull. I cannot make it stop.","author":"Moonshine Noire","tags":["agony","bones","depression","loneliness","mental-disorders","mental-health","metaphors","ocean","records","sea","similes","torture","tsunami","waves"],"id":7256,"author_id":"Moonshine+Noire"},{"text":"Anxiety is the monster that resides within.","author":"Karon Waddell","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-attack","anxiety-disorders","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-health-stigma"],"id":14218,"author_id":"Karon+Waddell"},{"text":"If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then what is the value of that label in describing their symptoms, deciding their treatment, or predicting their outcome, and would it not be more useful simply to describe their problems as they actually are? And if schizophrenia does not exist in nature, then how can researchers possibly find its cause or correlates? If psychiatric research has made so little progress in recent decades, it is in large part because everyone has been barking up the wrong tree. It is not a question of getting a bigger and better scanner, but of going right back to the drawing board.What’s more, medical-type labels can be as harmful as they are hollow. By reducing rich, varied, and complex human experiences to nothing more than a mental disorder, they not only sideline and trivialize those experiences but also imply an underlying defect that then serves as a pseudo-explanation for the person’s disturbed behaviour. This demeans and disempowers the person, who is deterred from identifying and addressing the important life problems that underlie his distress.","author":"Neel Burton","tags":["diagnosis","madness","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-illness","psychiatry","research","schizophrenia"],"id":17283,"author_id":"Neel+Burton"},{"text":"Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["bipolar","bipolar-disorder","bipolar","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-illness"],"id":30264,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"},{"text":"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["bipolar","bipolar","humor","mental-disorders","mental-illness"],"id":45633,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"},{"text":"They say there’s so much beauty in the world, but I don’t see it. Perhaps that’s my problem. Am I crazy for having major depressive disorder, or is the rest of the population crazy for not having it? How do you even define sanity? Is it the will to live another day in spite of a lifetime of failures? Or is it the desire to keep going after you’ve lost everything you really, truly cared about?","author":"Cyma Rizwaan Khan","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","life","mental-disorders"],"id":50100,"author_id":"Cyma+Rizwaan+Khan"},{"text":"The source for any mental trauma is never other person, but its your own MIND psyching YOU into believing that you're vulnerable at first, thereby gradually increasing the intensity of suffering as it justifies through illusionary reasons - all thanks to the unconscious recess, as falsity forms is very foundation with fabrication as prime drivers, thus pushing one into a life-negative state with violent mood swings followed by depression and suicidal tendencies! Beware of your MIND, for it's not YOU!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["depression","depression-recovery","lunatic","lunatic-asylum","mental-disorders","mental-psychology","mental-trauma","mind-game","mood-swings","suicidal-thoughts","suicide-prevention","unconscious-mind","unconscious-state"],"id":58161,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"Victimnoun \\ˈvik-təm\\ 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-real","dignity","emotional-responses","emotions","excuses","games","games-people-pleay","hidden-agendas","honesty","illness","live-truthfully","live-with-dignity","mental-disorders","mental-illness","truth","victom"],"id":62533,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The reason I don't Kill Myselfis because I know I can.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["bi-polar","mental-disorders","mental-health","suicide","suicide-attempt"],"id":69973,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}