Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates Copy Share Image
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
“Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
...I have wanted to believe people could make their dreams come truethat problems could be solved. However, this is a national illness.… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about this illness isn’t the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It’s not the… — Nathan Filer 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
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'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
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes,… — Carmen Ambrosio Copy Share Image
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric illnesses were classified into two major groups—organic illnesses and functional illnesses—based on presumed differences in their origin. That classification, which dated… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“People try to treat their illnesses without first trying to understand the cause of them. Behind every effect there is a cause.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a… — Frances Wriht Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
