Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Historically in the literature CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] was inappropriately touted as a cure for patients with ME/CFS if they changed their… — Alison C. Bested Copy Share Image
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“CBT is a much publicised and debated psychotherapeutic intervention for ME/CFS….The premise that cognitive therapy (eg. changing ‘illness beliefs’) and graded activity… — Anthony Komaroff Copy Share Image
The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image