Disorder Quotes - Page 10

• One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Ideas, Bipolar, Awareness

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• When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Strong, Opposites, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Being In Love, Personality

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• I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

  Richard Simmons

  Kids, Eating Disorder, Way

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Numbers, Degrees

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• I had an attachment disorder.

  Dave Pelzer

  Attachment

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• When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

  Jane Pauley

  Character, Years, Knowing

  "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

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• A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

  Jane Pauley

  Dramatic, Wave, Mood

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

  John C. McGinley

  Doe, Common, Birth

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• Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

  Jenny Lawson

  Real, Anxiety Disorder, Speaks Out

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• People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Anxiety Disorder, Odds, Sweaters

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• All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Addiction, Overcoming, Adhd

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• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, Lying, House

  "A New Album - and Life - for Fiona Apple" by Liza Ghorbani, www.elle.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

  Jane Austen

  Beer, World, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.190, Mondial

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• Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Husband, Book

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Drinking, Medicine, Water

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Air, Years

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.291, Soho Press

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• I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Giving Up, Get Well, Thinking

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

  Tom Robbins

  Rawness, Plasma

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

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• Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

  Jane Austen

  Past, Mind, Terrible

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.777, Ageless Reads

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• If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Strong, Sunset, Appreciate

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.272, Macmillan

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• So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mad, Imagination, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.21, Stanford University Press

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• Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dishonesty, Telling The Truth, Enough

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.916, Dell

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• We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

  Umberto Eco

  Sweet, Book, Decay

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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