"It is an irony of medical history that……" — Scott Stossel
"It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs."
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20 Quotes by Scott Stossel
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Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of…
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting…
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During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations…
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have,…
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When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off…
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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned…
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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my…
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An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I…
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