John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

People tend to look at mental health differently than physical health. If someone tears their ACL, we don't expect them to run 30 yards for a touchdown. They need to be treated and have the time to rest and heal, It's the same thing for mental health.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

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

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.