Gail Honeyman Quotes

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.