Book Quote by Susannah Cahalan

There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because…

— Joshua Ferris

"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year…

— Alan Lightman

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

— Maggie Stiefvater

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital…

— Richard Wright

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to…

— Jane Fonda

To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three…

— Richard Pryor

I would've been able to write anything about mental-health crises had I not felt good.

— Maria Bamford

I was cured all right.

— Anthony Burgess

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I…

— Max Ehrmann

“went. On paper, the patients did fine. They lost weight and in many cases they even improved their health to the point of coming…

— Yoni Freedhoff

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity…

— Ellen Bass