“As one refugee, Amila, from Gradačac, commented 20 years later: “The most important part of being a refugee is being a good… — John Farebrother Copy Share Image
“As she fell, Esther wasn’t worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasn’t worried about hitting… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“Besides, I wasn't the only one with sleep problems, as Victor had been talking in his sleep since he was a kid.… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“The Japanese psychiatrist Kimura Bin, director of the Psychiatric Hos- pital of Kyoto and translator of Binswanger, sought to deepen Heidegger’s anal-… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
“The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you will go through awful trials in your life and then a miracle happens--God heals you. Don’t be disheartened when the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true,… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“There is an element of selfishness to this, I suppose. It feels pretty good to be able to so quickly help someone.… — Kitty Dukakis Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all… — Deborah Bray Haddock Copy Share Image
Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle… — Duncan Long Copy Share Image
“So, what role does memory play in the understanding and treatment of trauma? There is a form of implicit memory that is… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Having DID is, for many people, a very lonely thing. If this book reaches some people whose experiences resonate with mine and… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“The word is dissociate. There is no 'a' before the 'ss'. People invariably say dis-a-ssociate, which, if you're suffering Disso-ciative Identity Disorder/Multiple… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all… — Emm Roy Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“For three days and three nights, Phædrus stares at the wall of the bedroom, his thoughts moving neither forward nor backward, staying… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Whenever the keys to self-esteem are seemingly out of reach for a large percentage of the people, as in twentieth-century America, then… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar… — John Green Copy Share Image
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