Abuse Quote by Jane Hersey

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

“complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.”

— Jon Ronson

“far from being weird, mental illness was absolutely normal. So”

— Bryony Gordon

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Normal behavior, therefore, is when we collectively believe that the circumstances justify the behavior. Likewise, abnormal behavior is when we don’t.”

— James Patterson

“If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of…

— Shannon L. Alder

“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.”

— Thomas Moore

“I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you're not a trained…

— Jon Ronson

“maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I”

— Jon Ronson

“What other than mental illness spurs normal people to write prolifically? The chief cause is not quite illness, but nearly: love, especially unhappy love.”

— Alice W. Flaherty

“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”

— R.D. Laing

“Perhaps ‘normal’ people had more control over their emotions. Perhaps what he considered normal, in fact, wasn’t.”

— Daniel Cole