Distress Quote by Oliver James

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

— Tom Shadyac

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners share, for…

— Ethan Watters

“The loss or the absence of meaning in life is perhaps the most common denominator of all forms of emotional distress; it is especially…

— Paul Watzlawick

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis…

— Ken Wilber

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

— Bruce H. Lipton

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

— Thomas More

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

— M. Scott Peck

“Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.”

— John E. Sarno

“Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.”

— Kaimana Wolff

It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.

— Cyril Connolly