Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. — William Golding Copy Share Image
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness. — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
“Mental illness do not designate a set path to failure. It’s simply a chemical or hormone imbalance that causes individuals to accept… — Okisha Jackson Copy Share Image
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance… — Lillian Gish Copy Share Image
In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit… — John Silber Copy Share Image
“When people create stigmas and make judgments, they do so without having any understanding of the issue; in fact, many of these… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
“In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness -… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
