Christopher Lasch Quotes

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

Of course, I've known people who have mental difficulties, so I know how fragile people's psyches are and how little it can take to overbalance somebody.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.