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“Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.”

Way Kind Two Guy Girl Father House Doubt Wife Daughter Illness Nuts Two Daughters

Book:Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look

Source: Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look

“Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.”

“People get really irritated by mental illness.”

People Illness Mental Illness Get Real Irritated

Author:Maria Bamford

“Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.”

“Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.”

Humans Body Light Found Grows Animal Study Psychology Flower Shapes Behavior Illness Excited Cures Sunlight Almighty Sociology Living Things

Author:Suzy Kassem

“It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.”

Self Body Protect Illness Technique Mental Illness Developing Inevitable Self Reliance Assurance Reliance Sense Of Self

Author:Yehudi Menuhin

“I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Feels Looks Helping Feelings Lost Wish Hurt Support Truth Is Medicine Illness Mental Illness Telling The Truth

Author:Michael Angelakos

“Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have”

Mental Health Illness Accomplished

Author:Edvard Munch

“I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.”

Abuse Illness Mental Illness Ecstasy Linked Cocaine Grappling

Author:Robbie Williams

“It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.”

Years Found Half Illness Horrible Mental Illness Posts Natal

Author:Gail Porter

“Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.”

Years Happens Five Tvs Illness Mental Illness Fake Five Years Pox

Author:Ruby Wax

“I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'”

Way Said Would Be Doctors Illness Mental Illness

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.”

Illness Mental Illness

Author:Graeme Obree

“I think it backfired. It wasn't what I expected, it was difficult. I didn't expect them to throw somany mind games into it. I didn't expect to be so emotional, but I asked for it really. I'ma glutton for punishment.”

Thinking Mind Games Difficult Emotional Illness Expected Punishment Mental Illness Mind Games Glutton For Punishment

Author:Sophie Anderton

“At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things. I try to get the right amount of sleep because I know that I need sleep to function and I need to eat properly and to do some exercising.”

Knows Needs Trying Mind Sleep Return Amount Exercise Function Illness Mental Illness Right Thing Of My Mind Need Sleep

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.”

Children Care Taken Five Week Danger Needed Illness Mental Illness My Children Bombs Bangs Psychiatric Depressive Time Bomb

Author:Trisha Goddard

“I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.”

Persons Illness Mental Illness Miserable Aggressive Miserable Person

Author:James Dean Bradfield

“I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.”

People May Littles Long Bits Forever Depression Little Bit Long Time Illness Mental Illness Jam Prozac People With Depression

Author:Jim Carrey

“Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.”

Feels Leaving Illness Unhappy Mental Illness Frightened Severe Leaving Me

Author:Melvyn Bragg

“I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.”

Felt Illness Mental Illness Like Something Psycho

Author:Katie Price

“Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.”

Problem Goes On Illness Mental Illness

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.”

Tears Illness Mental Illness Uncertainty Kicks

Author:Kylie Minogue

“Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.”

Years Done Wish Years Ago Illness Mental Illness Helpful Dealing With It

Author:Jack Dee

“Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.”

Perspective Lows Illness Mental Illness Low Points

Author:Uma Thurman

“It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.”

People Stills Speak Society Remains Mental Health Silent Illness Actresses Mental Illness Odd Paradox Openness Topics Paradoxical Unspeakable

Author:Glenn Close

“No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness”

People Persons Whole Broken Arms Illness Legs Mental Illness Whole Person Broken Leg

Author:Elyn Saks

“We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?”

People Knows Happens Mets Illness Mental Illness Misunderstanding

Author:Tipper Gore

“...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.”

Care Age Individual Dark Illness Medical Dark Ages

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.”

Should Age Dark Fashion Weight Illness Medical Holes Mental Illness Experts Demon Fraud Establishment Worthless Dark Ages Skulls Descendants Fda Drilling Orwellian Quackery

Author:James J. Kilpatrick

“The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.”

Might Crime Areas Roots Management Average Illness Accidents Violent Manage Household Traffic Unemployment Neglected Canals Violent Crimes Root Canals

Author:John Longenecker

“A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.”

Knows Helping Government Politics Realizing Illness Breathe Lungs

Author:Laozi

“There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.”

Thinking Needs Littles Helping Humor Effects Illness Psychological Repercussions

Author:Alan Thicke

“"...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they live and proliferate best in environments where there is LITTLE OR NO OXYGEN."”

Mean Littles Bigs Pain Causes Environment Majority Illness Therapy Oxygen Microbes

Author:Ed McCabe

“In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.”

People World Believe Soul Spirit Culture Divine Saint Illness Ghost Misfortunes Ritual After Death Soul Life

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.”

Should Trying May Different Spiritual Possibility Regard Illness Presumptuous

Author:Caroline Myss

“My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.”

Source: Venus in Furs

“Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.”

Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

“You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for material prosperity, or to recover from illness. But this way of practicing faith only leads to a dead end. Buddha images should serve as inspirations to cultivate the infinite loving kindness latent in the buddha within us.”

People Ifs Way Should Wells May Ends Inspiration Wish Kindness Special Materials Praying Infinite Illness Prosperity Well Being Latent Dead Ends Loving Kindness

Book:Shinjo: Reflections

Source: Shinjo: Reflections

“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”

Difficult Violence Angry Illness Mood Irrational Restless Psychosis Tiresome

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million people recover from their illnesses.”

People Two Used Millions Medicine Illness Herbs

Author:Richard M. Schulze

“..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.”

Trying Character Would Be Depression Lows Illness Laziness Snaps Diabetes Toothache Thyroid Lack Of Character

Book:Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.”

Wells Purpose Return Depression Illness Heal Enthusiasm Well Being Meaning Of Life

Book:How to Heal Depression

Source: How to Heal Depression

“One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.”

Writing Two Ideas Problem Might Father Left Parent Behinds Illness Proof Mental Illness Crafts Legacy Left Behind Two Sisters

Author:David Auburn

“The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.”

Soul Lost Rooms Cold Skins Illness Hospitals Crowded Hallways Lost Souls

Book:Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion

“Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff.”

“Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.”

Treats Illness Mental Illness

Book:Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

Source: Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

“I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.”

Mental Health Illness

Author:Adam Ant

“Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.”

I Can Subjects Masters Illness Emote

Author:Tony Judt

“It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.”

Different Illness Old Love

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.”

Thinking Has Beens Artist Energy Felt Too Much Demand Illness Collections Collectors

Author:Howard Hodgkin

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