Quotes for All
That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete … Read more
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Those are my two driving … Read more
I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, \”what they can live with,\” and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view. Edward Albee
When a drug comes out [that’s broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn’t come through in the clinical trials. And I’m sure [drug companies] would love it if, in … Read more
But full sequencing? No. Very hard to interpret. At some point probably we’ll all have that opportunity but most of what’s there will be stuff that we don’t know what to say much about. So it’s a great research tool, but for clinical purposes to advise somebody to practice better health maintenance, it’s not necessarily … Read more
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. Dennis Lehane
It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality. Davy Crockett
The fields of clinical psychology and psychiatry exist specifically to help the emotionally unstable become more stable and lead happier, healthier lives. Unlike in the eras of Vincent Van Gogh and Abraham Lincoln, there is now professional help available for those who suffer from emotional illness. Treatment may require therapy or even medication, but hope … Read more
sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them. David Foster Wallace