Illness Quotes - Page 32

• I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

  Robert Schwentke

  Serious Illness, Serious, Made

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

  Tom Shadyac

  Healing, Reflection, Emotional

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• I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

  Tom Shadyac

  Party, Thinking, Kind

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• People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has been permanently sealed. It had been releasing methane and other pollutants into the air for four months. Thousands of people have complained of respiratory illnesses and other problems.

  Ari Shapiro

  Home, Air, People

  "Residents Return Home After Workers Cap Leaking Gas Well In Los Angeles". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Actors, Our Society

  "Laura Benanti used to tell kids she was an Indian princess". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. February 22, 2016.

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• If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological data, on the other hand, says otherwise.

  Richard Bentall

  Believe, Hands, Data

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

  Richard Bentall

  War, Recovery, Availability

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).

  Richard Bentall

  Country, Suicide, Heart

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

  John Darnielle

  People, Diagnosis, Needs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

  Source: content.time.com

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• The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

  Michael Sandel

  Medicine, Suffering, Relief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different - and better - possible. We really need to squarely face the issue of child abuse in America, and to look at our perversity, our illness.

  Laura Mullen

  Children, Honesty, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Americans were in love with mesmerism because it was something that you could do in your own home. You could mesmerize or hypnotize your aunt or your mother or your father and people would go into these trance states and you could introduction autosuggestions tot hem or as some people saw it, you could cure them of illnesses.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Mother, Father, Home

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Race, Class, Example

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Mistake, Cancer, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Brain, Social Pressure, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Fire, People

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• I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Self Esteem, Thinking, People

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Self Esteem, People

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hiv, Textbooks, Able

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

  James Hillman

  Character, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.

  Marianne Williamson

  Live Life, Healing, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I sometimes say to people who have life-challenging illnesses: "Right now you are tempted to think that if you were physically well you would be happy. But if that were true, everybody who is physically well would be happy."

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  Source: scottlondon.com

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