Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

My sense of urgency is very simple,' said the professor, 'I've remembered that much. It's because what I have to remember has to do with time running out. And that's what anxiety is, in a lot of...

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By changing...

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up...

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talk show host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this....

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope, considering the length of time I've been performing this job. The trouble is, who could ever replace...

Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suffered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in...

Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread - and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is!

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me again - unless, indeed, this...

I'm just tired and I can't sleep yet. A woman's work is never done, isn't that what the fools say?

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia - Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beat

there is a difference between denial and delusion. The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy.

Learn to take criticism seriously but not personally.

I have a room, which is in my brain, and it's very, very, very... untidy! There is stuff fallen everywhere. There are some very important ideas next to some very silly ones. There is a bottle of wine...

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

In my hospital room, there was a constant comings and goings. Doctors, the head nurse, and her team of nurses in starched uniforms and rubber-soled shoes. Superficially, it seemed like history was...

The final therapy, as Freud said, is work and love.

It might have helped us considerably to have been shown, perhaps through some simple exercises in elementary school, that we are not our thoughts, that we can watch them come and go and learn not to...

Sometimes, the hallucinations are visual and olfactory as well and make the world full of actual threats into a writhing hell of inescapable terrorization. Though many schizophrenics become curiously...

If I decide to end my life, psychologically I wouldn't have to go far, because mentally and emotionally I am more prepared for this than for the unplanned daily perturbations marking each morning and...

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.

Youth is the hardest time in life. One seldom hears of an old person committing suicide.

And later my macabre joy sours and I'm weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing "I just want to be loved," cursing the earth and everything I have been taught:...

Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.

The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.

His date kept saying to him, "How horrible . . . Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed...