Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. Renata Adler
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Richard Carlson
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. Karl Kraus
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood
No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae. Camille Paglia