Robert Musil Quotes

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

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

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

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

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

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

I think that mental illness is something that is so real.

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.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

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.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

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

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

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.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.

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

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

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

There's nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.