I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but… — Kidd Kraddick Copy Share Image
I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
“Mental health is real and it matters. No matter what season we are currently in. It happens all year round; not just… — Sarah J. DuBois Copy Share Image
Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“Should a man, to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour, scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nick shook his head. “It amazes me that there’s still such a huge stigma about mental illness here.” “ ‘Stigma’ implies that something… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
“Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room and… — Marc Olmsted Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach."… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing,… — Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Copy Share Image
I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to… — Tom Bailey Copy Share Image
“Change your focus, give power to the positive and starve the negative. We reduce our inner wisdom to think with logic that's… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates… — Greg Anderson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before being a mental state of the schizophrenic who has made himself into an artificial person through autism, schizophrenia is the process… — Gilles Deleuze / Felix Guatari Copy Share Image
