“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.” — Benjamin Aubrey Myers Copy Share Image
When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia. — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.” — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.” — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on… — Limmy Copy Share Image
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. That’s what you do. You get out of bed, and you get… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted… — James Rothman Copy Share Image
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than… — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll 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
Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell 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
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and… — Randy Noblitt 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
“These genetic malfunctions are unlikely to produce schizophrenia in an individual unless they are stimulated by environmental conditions. By far the most… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
