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Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

— Siri Hustvedt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

— Naomi Judd

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

— Tipper Gore

People get really irritated by mental illness.

— Maria Bamford

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

— Lysette Anthony

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

— Hilary Mantel

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

— Iain McGilchrist

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

— Gene Tierney

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

— Gene Tierney

✗Opposing Perspectives

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.

— Chris Wood