Susanna Kaysen Quotes

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I've never met a well-adjusted person. It's weird.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

On a daily basis, you must take more care of your mind than just money, money, money!

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.