Family Quote by Mark Forsyth

“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”

— Alan Pauls

“the strain of unrelieved company for days on end rather got on my nerves. After a week of visiting, gossip, daily medical clinics, and…

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— Gary Small

“ and some of the people i knew were contemplating our circumstances. our circumstances being poorly paid jobs if we worked in the arts,…

— Sloane Crosley

“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.”

— Robert Mykle

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of…

— Thomas Szasz

“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

“But this "progress" in psychiatry had gone hand in hand with what, to many, seemed to be the pathologising of perfectly ordinary human weirdness.”

— Sarah Wise

“I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I…

— Jonathan Franzen

“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 knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort…

— George Orwell

“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