Amount Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Resilience presents a challenge for psychologists. Whether you can be said to have it or not largely depends not on any particular psychological test…

— Maria Konnikova

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

— Elizabeth Edwards

“What Makes Up Resilience? If you look at the current research, here are five of the most common factors of resilient people: They are…

— Brené Brown

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a…

— Maya Forbes

“Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems…

— Lorii Myers

“Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“Many mental health professionals are drawn to the field in part to resolve their own personal struggles.”

— Gary Small

Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never…

— Richard Davidson

Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your…

— James Redford