Augusten Burroughs Quotes

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

I've never had a personal experience with cancer.

Cancer is a serious subject, one many battle daily.

To clear the air once and for all, I don't have cancer. I'm not going through chemotherapy. I have alopecia. Alopecia areata, to be exact about it. I love the way that I look; I'm not worried about it.

The first neurologist I saw just thought I was partying too much, and he stuck by that claim even after my family insisted that he was wrong.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

That's all they said was wrong with me?

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.