Andrew Solomon Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

  Andrew Solomon

  Acceptance, Identity, Way

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Crazy, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Loneliness, Fading

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

• The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

  Andrew Solomon

  Years, Forever, Important

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

• Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

  Andrew Solomon

  Real, Identity, Illness

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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