This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
I've been to therapists my whole life.
Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
I have a huge problem with pornography.
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
There are many diseased minds in this country.
Hubbard said psychiatry was part of a vast conspiracy to destroy his newly formed church and control mankind. Recent Scientology films still attack psychiatrists as potential killers.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Psychiatry causes so much death.
There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
Oh yeah, I've been in therapy in and out of my whole life.
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.
The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
Half the counties in America have no psychiatrists, psychologists or psychiatric social workers--none.
Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
