98 quotes found
“Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just t...”
“Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.”
“We are so used to our own history, we do not see it as remarkable or out of the ordinary, whereas others might see it as horrendous. Further, we tend to minimize that which we feel shameful about.”
“much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappin...”
“Typically, a psychiatrist can fool a patient by telling him the root of his problem can be fixed with this pill, that support group, and more psychiatry appointments. They don't tell the patient th...”
“Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.”
“Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.”
“Eventually I had gotten it together enough to call her. I did so partly to let her know where I was and partly to almost brag about where I was. Whenever Id get morose, sulky, or stuck somewhere be...”
“Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.”
“She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and English chapels. Her walks too were solitary, and principally ta...”
“Nobody feels ashamed of going to the dentist; its socially appropriate to take care of your teeth, even preventively. In short, its more normal to take care of our dental health than our mental hea...”
“I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.”
“Didnt you find it all rather unsatisfying?Yes, but I couldnt seem to see a way out. It was like being three different people, and they all wanted to go different ways.A slight smile. The result wa...”
“It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her gues...”
“They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.”
“And that will be on my medical records for ever.Everyone will always know Im a nutter. Behavioural problems. Im just a bloody labelA label written on a white board in a single room without a radio,...”
“Im so NUMB. I just dont care, it seems-but I must do. This is all going to sound totally incoherent. Im that bunged up, but totally empty. I think my worries about who I am have reached a head.I me...”
“It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was...”
“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That’s damaging...”
