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    Susan Pease Banitt
    “PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
    ― Susan Pease Banitt
    tags: emotions, healing, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychology, ptsd, spirituality, stress, trauma, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-stress, traumatized, yoga
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    Roland Barthes
    “However paradoxical it may seem, myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.”
    ― Roland Barthes, Mythologies
    tags: disappear, distortion, myth
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    Mitta Xinindlu
    “Not everyone is attuned to their instincts. Some choose to ignore them, while some ignore them because of trauma.”
    ― Mitta Xinindlu
    tags: decision-making, distortion, health-status, instincts, intuition, mindfulness, mitta-xinindlu, quotes, reality, trauma
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    Tehmina Durrani
    “Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings”
    ― Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord
    tags: appearances, feelings, perfection, schizophrenics
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    Francesca Zappia
    “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”
    ― Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
    tags: alex-ridgemont, mental-illness, reality, schizophrenia
    325 likes

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    Emilie Autumn
    “Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.”
    ― Emilie Autumn
    tags: insanity, schizophrenia
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    Francesca Zappia
    “Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.”
    ― Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
    tags: alex-ridgemont, mental-illness, schizophrenia
    154 likes

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    Francesca Zappia
    “I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.

    But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.”
    ― Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
    tags: alex-ridgemont, mental-illness, schizophrenia
    117 likes

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    Kevin Alan Lee
    “In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”
    ― Kevin Alan Lee, The Split Mind: Schizophrenia from an Insider's Point of View
    tags: culture, government, health-care, health-care-system, humanism, medical, medicine, memoir, mental-illness, philosophy, political-science, politics, psychiatry, psychology, reference, schizophrenia, socialism, society, split-mind
    106 likes

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    Jonathan Harnisch
    “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.”
    ― Jonathan Harnisch
    tags: depression, depression-quotes, depression-recovery, fighting-mad, mental-health, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, mental-illness-stigma, optimism, optimism-quotes, optimist, optimistic, optimistic-quotes, ptsd, ptsd-quotes, recovery, schizophrenia
    40 likes

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    Joanne Greenberg
    “You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”
    ― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    tags: depression, mental-disorder, mental-health, schizophrenia, survival
    13 likes

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    R.D. Laing
    “What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”
    ― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
    tags: mind, normality, psychiatry, schizophrenia
    14 likes

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    Jonathan Harnisch
    “I feel completely broken due to the cruel and dark side of life. Life has been incredibly harsh, leaving me utterly shattered. I have been deeply affected and devastated by this cruel and unforgiving reality.”
    ― Jonathan Harnisch
    tags: akathisia, dementia, depression, dissociative-identity-disorder, life-quotes, loss-quotes, mental-health, mental-illness, schizophrenia, suicide-awareness
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  • #14
    “Schizophrenia may affect how we perceive reality, but it cannot diminish the power of our imagination and the strength of our spirit.”
    ― Dr. Rameez Shaikh
    tags: inspirational-quotes, mental-health-awareness, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-stigma, mentality-quotes, quotes, quotes-about-life, schizophrenia
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    Jonathan Harnisch
    “The mental and physical terror, along with extreme discomfort, is excruciating and debilitating. To truly understand the enormity and cruel extent of the incapacitation and dread in the waking nightmare of akathisia, one must experience it firsthand.”
    ― Jonathan Harnisch
    tags: akathisia, hell-on-earth, mental-health-side-effects, mental-illness, prescription-drugs, schizophrenia, suffering
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    Aysha Taryam
    “How difficult it has become to decipher the truth from the fictitious, to trust one’s own eyes over the art of image distortion. Information is power and if readings have taught us anything, it is that power inevitably corrupts.”
    ― Aysha Taryam
    tags: distortion, fake-news, image, information, information-age, information-overload, power, power-of-words
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    Robert Kolker
    “One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease”
    ― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
    tags: schizophrenia
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    Sara Niles
    “The power of an illusion or delusion is that the mind races and the heart pounds in fear of the imagined, the unreal truth. During psychosis and extreme mental illness, the mind’s reality undergoes a breach; and the mind, the Great Fort, is itself broken.”
    ― Sara Niles, The Long Suicide: Losing Ariel
    tags: delusions, false-reality, schizophrenia
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  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: insanity, sanity
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4054 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: education, ethics
    2895 likes

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    Albert Schweitzer
    “Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
    ― Albert Schweitzer
    tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
    775 likes

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  • #23
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
    8262 likes

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  • #24
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    77923 likes

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  • #25
    Michel de Montaigne
    “If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: individuality, reflection
    441 likes

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    Connor Franta
    “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”
    ― Connor Franta
    tags: equality, lgbt, lgbtqia, positivity, youtube
    474 likes

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    Connor Franta
    “I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing”
    ― Connor Franta
    tags: coming-out, inspirational, lgbt, lgbtqia, self-esteem, team-internet, youtube
    183 likes

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    Robert Jones Jr.
    “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
    ― Robert Jones Jr.
    tags: bigotry, disagreement, human-rights, human-rights-violations, incorrect-attribution, love, quote-by-robert-jones
    204 likes

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  • #29
    Ashley Berry
    “I wondered how you would react when i revealed to you my hidden parts, my ugly parts that don't do well in the sunlight”
    ― Ashley Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir
    tags: anxiety-quotes, bipolar-disorder, borderline-personality-disorder, depression-quotes, memoir, mental-health-quotes, ocd, self-help-quotes, self-help-quotes-for-women, separate-things-memoir
    8 likes

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    Fady Asly
    “We become wise the day we understand the difference between what is legally right to do and what is the right thing to do. They don't
    always match.”
    ― Fady Asly, Utopias and Realities: A Colorful Journey Through Life
    tags: ethics-and-moral-philosophy
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