Habits Quote by Jon Ronson

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

— Thomas Scheff

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

— Jon Ronson

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.”

— Jane Hersey

“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like…

— Heather Sellers

“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.”

— Roni Askey-Doran

“Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was how you…

— Heather Sellers

“I remembered those psychologists who said psychopaths made the world go around. They meant it: society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular…

— Jon Ronson

“As its lists of diagnoses and ‘diseases’ proliferate, the frantic efforts to distinguish ever-larger numbers of types and sub-types of mental disorder come to…

— Andrew Scull