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“The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?”

Ifs World Home Able Logic Illness Mental Illness Settling Hospitals Ruling

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.”

Crazy Pressure Illness Mental Illness

Author:Judith Guest

“To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”

Self Sick Illness Sickness Carrie Helpless Narcissistic Hazards Humiliating Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

Source: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

“To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.”

Known Marriage Female Illness Cures

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.”

Hard Growth Grace Hard Work Chaos Illness Sickness Resurrection Begets

Author:M. Scott Peck

“Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.”

Sometimes Pain Praying Illness Going Away Meant To Be Wiser

Author:Stephen Levine

“People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.”

People Doe Humor Funny Paper Humorous Doctors Claims Medicine Illness Terminal Filing

Author:Erma Bombeck

“People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Suffering Imagine Madness Illness Mental Illness Selling Something Better

Author:John Forbes Nash

“I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.”

People Use Given Attention Draws Illness Sickness Eminence

Author:John Steinbeck

“... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.”

Night Periods Illness Mental Illness Every Night Lethargic

Book:Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

Source: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

“I was just sort of moving through time.”

Moving Illness Mental Illness Rough Times

Book:Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

Source: Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke

“Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.”

People Thinking Persons Reason Illness Mental Illness Insane Sane Insane Person

Book:A Mind That Found Itself

Source: A Mind That Found Itself

“Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.”

Might Form Certain Suffering Conditions Divine Degrees Enlightenment Patient Illness Insight Mental Illness Disorder Flash Mental Disorder

Book:A Mind That Found Itself

Source: A Mind That Found Itself

“To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.”

Writing Home Remember Sides Accepting Safe Treats Illness Circles Devotion Mental Illness Golden Insane Relative Flags Humane Golden Rule Suspended Relatives And Friends

Book:A Mind That Found Itself

Source: A Mind That Found Itself

“To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.”

Men Feels Reality Earth Suffering Behinds Hell Glory Green Privilege Illness Mental Illness Worthwhile Green Earth

Author:Clifford Whittingham Beers

“As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.”

Humans Wells Happens Human Beings Worst Offers Illness Mental Illness Worst Things Schizophrenia

Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.”

Cancer Illness Mental Illness Flu Schizophrenia Ulcers

Author:Mark Vonnegut

“Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.”

Wells I Can Lasts Night Paid Illness Dues Mental Illness Last Night

Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.”

World Normal Illness Mental Illness Collectives Sanity Facade Madhouses

Author:John Astin

“My main memories of my father are of his illness.”

Father Memories Illness Memory Of My Father

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.”

Three Fine Seven Illness Three Times Medication Bipolar Being Free

Author:Carrie Fisher

“In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.”

World Film Stars Media Ideals Illness Focused Mental Illness Ideal World Film Stars

Author:Alastair Campbell

“We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.”

People Has Beens Numbers Saws Killing Illness Significant Could Have Been Outbreaks Sars Significant Numbers

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.”

Needs Kids Young Becoming Disease Illness Mental Illness Becoming More

Author:Lisa Gardner

“Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.”

Should Wells Body Seems Pain Individual Understanding Natural Particular Products Healthy Perfection Green Notion Illness Lifestyle Well Being Consumerism Precise Norm Normality

Author:Peter Dickens

“The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.”

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.”

World Wells Stills Ability Moral Modern Health Activity Everyday Illness Absence Defined Well Being Dimensions Modern World Positively World Health

Author:Mildred Blaxter

“Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.”

“To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.”

Life Wells Life Is Hate Planets Illness Peculiar Destructiveness Hate Life Organic Life

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.”

People Thinking Illness Maintenance Chronic Illness High Maintenance

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.”

Mind Philosophy Body Waiting Attention Psychology Demand Medicine Illness Senses Soma

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.”

Ends Would Be Lasts Science Months Research Illness Devotion Finest Franklin

Author:John Desmond Bernal

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