American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right… — Eric Millegan Copy Share Image
Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“Medication is the most efficient way to jump-start treatment, but it does not effectively treat ADHD in marriages without the addition of… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into… — Carolyn Bramhall Copy Share Image
Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“Since the 1980s, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has been on the rise, not just among children, but now among the adult population… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the working memory impairments of ADHD allow a momentary emotion to become too strong; the person is flooded with one emotion… — Thomas E. Brown Copy Share Image
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of… — Nicolas Steno Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive… — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie… — Tony Taccone Copy Share Image
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“days of “talks” about his “problem”? People with ADHD are all too aware that others think they are “broken,” and the resulting… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and was so disappointed and disgusted by what you saw, that you wanted… — Jenn F Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness… — Torrie Wilson Copy Share Image
“For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We’re constantly surrounded by video, music, people. No wonder attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is more prevalent than ever; no one has to concentrate for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings,… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If you are being parented, it means that ADHD symptoms are getting in the way of your relationship, whether you are aware… — Melissa Orlov Copy Share Image
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