Quotes for All
The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart. Eric Kandel
Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way. Emma Forrest
I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently. Elyn Saks
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I’ve never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. Elyn Saks
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It’s a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. Elyn Saks
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of ‘mental health’ despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it. E. Fuller Torrey
The very term [‘mental disease’] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental ‘disease’ than you can have a purple idea or a wise space\”. Similarly, there can no more be a \”mental illness\” than there can be a \”moral illness.\” The words … Read more
Psychiatric services – that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living – are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help. Francis Crick
Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. David D. Burns