“Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.”

“There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.”

“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”

“You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.”

“Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.”

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”