I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore 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
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety,… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
. . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous 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
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
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
When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed… — Isabel Sanford Copy Share Image
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self… — John Briggs Copy Share Image
You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition… — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Rachael Leigh Cook was my leading lady. She was awesome. We loved the show [Perception ]. Again, it was more of a… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and… — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And someone else wrote me, "What I want is to know your own experience of illness." Why the interest? People on their… — Nan Shin Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of our priorities is to have an enabling environment for private investment, both domestic and foreign investment, and that means we… — Joao Lourenco Copy Share Image
A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well… — Marianne Williamson 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
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