I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
I'm not going to throw up or over-exercise myself into oblivion to look like a model. People tell me, 'You'd work all the time if you just lost twenty pounds.' What am I going to do, cut off my head?!
I'm nearsighted, in part, because I would read past my bedtime in the dark. I didn't want my mom to see that I was still awake.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.
We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means they can come up with.
Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
When you're with a group of semi-psychotic people, you kind of lose track of reality; it's almost like being in some sort of cult or something.
Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
