Jon Ronson Quotes

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

I was doing general medicine and during residency, I moonlighted at a psychiatric hospital and became very interested in the medical care of psychiatric patients.

I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

No parent, family member, or friend should be told that treatment isn't available for their loved one. By establishing a dedicated and stable fund for mental health, we will give hope to so many who are suffering in silence.

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

Anyone who knows me will say I'm the most normal bloke you'll ever meet.

I've always been a super regular guy.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about.

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed

There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.