Thoughtful Quotes About Mental Illness

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Below are a few quotes about the experience of having mental illness

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Elyn R. Saks

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

Hilary Mantel

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Elyn R. Saks

 

[Tolworth John]

Have you talked with the people in your church who do or have suffered with mental illness?

Does your church recognise it exists among Christians and that there are far more methods of treatment apart from prayer?

Having identified those mother's still suffering from post natal depression, those parents with children with learning difficulties and others in the congragation suffering from various mental illnesses, talk to the minister about forming a support group, where they can talk about there problems, what has helped them and to recognise they are not alone.
This is not a place to pray for healing. It is for support and encouragement.
Pray can of course be requested, not imposed upon.

 

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I have not been to church for years. I called a church elder and explained a little of bit of my understanding of what was going on. She called the pastor, I spoke to the pastor explained what I could remember at the time. Then some time after my pastor got cancer and died, and the church elder I told also died of cancer. This is when I realized that there was something more going on in my life. As a result I did not feel comfortable talking to anybody in church.

Additionally I can't trust anyone in church. This became apparent when one of the persons in church began insinuating something about me. He made disturbing comments to me in front of persons. Another member of the church began making comments making me uncomfortable, and as a result I felt uncomfortable at church.

I can't trust anybody.

Many church persons are also quick to quarrel with me if I say anything they do not believe or agree with. So I am facing opposition from all sides.

I do not fit in anywhere.