Florence King Quotes

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

Western man is schizophrenic.

The United States is a madhouse.

In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

I've had paranoid panic attacks.

I love to get to the underbelly of why people are up in arms about anything. Really, what I see is a big shadow in the West, in America especially, and everyone's afraid of looking stupid. But the truth is, I'm a genius and I'm stupid at the same time.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I hate that word dysfunction.

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

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.

Washington is riddled with unstable people who are either depressed or make other people depressed.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.