Autoimmune disease Quote by Susannah Cahalan

If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of…

— Susannah Cahalan

“Dr. Cai Song is an internationally known researcher at the University of British Columbia and co-author of a recent textbook, Fundamentals of Psychoneuroimmunology. “I…

— Gabor Maté

Manic depressive is a disease.

— Debbie Reynolds

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

— Ivan Turgenev

“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr.…

— Aldous Huxley

“Depression is a Virus, handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Most psychiatrists assume that mental illnesses such as depression are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, which can be treated by drugs. But…

— Mark Fisher

“I have become fundamentally and deeply skeptical that anyone who does not have this illness can truly understand it. And, ultimately, it is probably…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities.”

— Joan Friedlander

“If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.”

— Christena Cleveland

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.

— Ben Marcus

“For nearly a hundred years, psychiatry has been striving to apply medical model thinking to psychiatric disorders. In this model, the symptoms besieging patients…

— Keith Russell Ablow