{"quotes":[{"text":"There’s a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life....We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.","author":"Elyn R. Saks","tags":["labelling","mental-health","mental-illness","schizophrenia","schizophrenic","stereotypes"],"id":85644,"author_id":"Elyn+R.+Saks"},{"text":"Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.But having perused the various tests available that they use to determine whether you're manic depressive. OCD, schizo-affective, schizophrenic, or whatever, I'm surprised the number is that low. So I have gone through a bunch of the available tests, and I've taken questions from each of them, and assembled my own psychological evaluation screening which I thought I'd share with you.So, here are some of the things that they ask to determine if you're mentally disordered1. In the last week, have you been feeling irritable?2. In the last week, have you gained a little weight?3. In the last week, have you felt like not talking to people?4. Do you no longer get as much pleasure doing certain things as you used to?5. In the last week, have you felt fatigued?6. Do you think about sex a lot?If you don't say yes to any of these questions either you're lying, or you don't speak English, or you're illiterate, in which case, I have the distinct impression that I may have lost you a few chapters ago.","author":"Carrie Fisher","tags":["americans","crazy","illness","mad","madman","manic-depressive-ocd","mental","mental-heath","mental-illness","psychiatry","schizo-affective","schizophrenic","statistics","statistics-humor","test"],"id":115202,"author_id":"Carrie+Fisher"},{"text":"If reshaping a life style boils down to pretending and dwindling into a world of make-believe, living may turn into a schizophrenic merry-go-round and the real self might be crunched and munched on, piece by piece. (“He did not know that she knew”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["boil-down-to","crunch","dwindle","know","life-style","living","make-believe","merry-go-round","munch","piece-by-piece","pretending","real-self","reshaping","schizophrenic","turn-into","world"],"id":150909,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["jonathan-harnisch","mental-disorder","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-health-professionals","mental-health-stigma","mental-hospital","mental-illness","mentality","quote","of-the-day","of-the-week","quotes","about-life","and-saying","to-live-by","schizo","schizo-affective","schizoaffective","schizophrenia","schizophrenic","schizophrenics"],"id":271792,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"},{"text":"They say I don’t exist. They say I am an extension, an indulgence, imagination of a schizophrenic person.","author":"Faiz Shaikh","tags":["alter-ego","existence","existential","existentialism","imagination","schizo","schizophrenia","schizophrenic"],"id":279425,"author_id":"Faiz+Shaikh"},{"text":"Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["airhead","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","around-the-bend","ass","bad","bad-people","bad-person","bananas","batty","birdbrain","blockhead","bonkers","boob","bozo","brainless","buggy","bushed","certifiable","chowderhead","chowderheaded","chump","clod","coot","crack-brained","cracked","crackers","crackpot","crazed","crazy","cretin","cuckoo","daft","dead-loss","demented","deranged","dim","dimwit","dimwitted","dingbat","dipstick","disappointment","disturbed","ditz","dolt","donkey","dope","dork","dud","dullard","dumb","dumb-ass","dumb-cluck","dumbhead","dumbo","dumdum","dummy","dunce","dunderhead","fail","failure","fathead","flake","fool","foolhardy","foolish","funny","galoot","goat","goober","goof","goofball","goofus","goon","half-baked","halfwit","halfwitted","harebrained","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","idiot","idiotic","ignoramus","ill-advised","ill-considered","imbecile","impolitic","imprudent","incautious","informal-no-hoper","injudicious","insane","insanity","jerk","joke","jokes","jughead","klutz","lamebrain","loco","loony","loopy","loser","lummox","mad","mad-as-a-hatter","meatball","mentally-disordered","mentally-ill","mindless","moron","nerd","nincompoop","ninny","nitwit","non-compos-mentis","not-all-there","numbnuts","numbskull","nuts","of-unsound-mind","pea-brained","peabrain","psycho","psychotic","putz","quotations","quotes","rash","reckless","sap","satire","schizophrenic","schlemiel","schlep","schmuck","screwy","silly","simpleton","stark-raving-mad","stupid","thick","thickhead","thoughtless","turkey","twerp","twit","unbalanced","underachiever","unhinged","unintelligent","unstable","unwise","wacko","witless","wooden-headed","write-off","zombie"],"id":308785,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["all-there","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","around-the-bend","avoid","balanced","bananas","batty","bonkers","bushed","certifiable","compos-mentis","conscious","consciously","cracked","crackers","crazed","crazy","cuckoo","demented","depress","depressed","depressing","depression","deranged","disturbed","escape","evade","evasion","faculties","funny","humor","humour","in-one-s-right-mind","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","limit","limitation","loco","loony","loopy","lucid","lucidity","mad","mad-as-a-hatter","mental-health","mentally-disordered","mentally-ill","mind","non-compos-mentis","normal","not-all-there","number","number-of-people","nuts","of-sound-mind","of-unsound-mind","off-one-s-rocker","out-of-one-s-mind","out-of-one-s-tree","pretend","pretense","psycho","psychotic","rational","rationality","reason","sane","saneness","sanity","satire","schizophrenic","screwy","sense","sincere","sincerely","stability","stable","stark-raving-mad","suicidal","suicide","sympathetic","sympathy","together","unbalanced","unconscious","unconsciously","unhinged","unstable","unsympathetic","wacko","wits"],"id":317300,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.","author":"Robert Mykle","tags":["books","caves","insanity","lone-wolves","publicity-hounds","quotes","schizophrenic","writers","writing"],"id":370826,"author_id":"Robert+Mykle"},{"text":"You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["alone","alone","bipolar","bipolar-disorder","bipolar-life","bipolar","depression","depression","depression-recovery","feeling-alone","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-weakness","inspirational","inspirational","jonathan-harnisch","life","life-and-living","life-changing","life-experience","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","mental","mental-health","mental-illness","mood","motivation","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","ptsd","and-saying","and-sayings","to-live-by","reading","reading-books","recover","recovery","recovery-from-grief","schizo","schizo-affective","schizoaffective","schizophrenia","schizophrenic","schizophrenics","self-awareness","self-help","self-improvement"],"id":395775,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}