Hanif Kureishi Quotes

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.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

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

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

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

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

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

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Depression has been called the world's number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.