Kevin Gates Quotes

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

I don't believe in psychology.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

The problem with mental illness, as opposed to physical illness, is that it involves wrong thinking or impaired insight. You're not thinking correctly.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you expect.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.