You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.' — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Life can be anxiety provoking, and the more we talk about mental health, the more we normalize it and help remove the… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time… — Meghan O'Rourke 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'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
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
“Fear is a bastard. Fear is an attention whore. I want to ask fear if it has mommy issues, because that’s the… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“People with mental illnesses are then made to believe that they are somehow inferior to everyone else around them. They feel shame,… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have,… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“-Speaking about Vaccinations - "If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one… — Zafrullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
