الزمن ساعدني على النسيان، و لكنه بمرارةٍ رهيبة أخذ وقته من أجل ذلك .
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.
An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if...
لقد كانت الأشياء الغبية، و المتفائلة بيأس، و المتواضعة التي لم يقلها، هي التي جعلتني على قيد الحياة.
Without science, there would be no such hope.
Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.
There was a fine-tuning of Richard's and my temperaments during the years we lived with his heart disease, lymphoma, and lung cancer. Before, our differences had triggered sporadic tension; now our ba...
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. Antidepressants might be indicated for psychiatric patien...
Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a...
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
As a child I had been quiet and invisible when troubled; as an adult, I had hidden my mental illness behind an elaborate construction of laughter and work and dissembling.
لقد كنت معتادة على كون عقلي هو أحسن صديق لي , وعلى ادارة حوارات لانهائية لها داخل رأسي , و على ما بنيته داخل عقلي من مصدر للضحك و الفكر التحليلي لإنقاذي من البيئة المملة .
لقد كانت حياة غريبة الأطوار: مدهشة , ورهيبة, و بغيضة, و عسيرة بما يفوق الوصف, و سهلة بصورة عظيمة و غير متوقعة, و معقدة, و تسلية عظيمة, وكابوسا بلا مخرج!
لقد اعتقدت بصدق في وقت من الأوقات أن هناك كمية محددة من الألم يجب أن يمر بها كل انسان في هذه الحياة
We put our faith in things great and small. We assign to them meaning they may actually have, or meaning that we need for them to have in order to carry on.
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.
يأس كامل من المستقبل , خوف من تكرار الآلام و المعاناة الى المالانهاية .
كلنا نبني أسوارا بَحْرِيّة داخلية لتصد حزن الحياة والقوى الجامحة الموجودة غالبا داخل عقولنا. بأية طريقة فعلنا ذلك ـ عن طريق الحب، أو العمل، او العائلة، أو الإيمان، أو الأصدقاء، أو نكران الذات، او الكح...