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• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Stress, Cia Agents

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• The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

  Eric Kandel

  Heart, People, Understanding

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Practice, Fast Food

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• Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lying, Organization, Perfect

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  David D. Burns

  Differences, Numbers, World

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  Skulls, People, Interesting

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• In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as propagating the teachings of some of the most bizarre cults. The only vital difference is that the cults are less dangerous because their errors are more identifiable.

  Jay E. Adams

  Teaching, Errors, Differences

  Jay E. Adams (1986). “A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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• Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

  Darynda Jones

  Goal, Life Is, Disorder

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Names, Pieces, Paper

  Michael Thomas Ford (2011). “Suicide Notes”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

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• I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

  Norman Reedus

  Russia, Creepy, Vibes

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• Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Views

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• I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

  James McGreevey

  Different, Life Living, Integrated

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• If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Night, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Amputation, Injury

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Mistake, Cancer, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Successful, Emotional, Overcoming

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

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• Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

  Gbenga Akinnagbe

  Growing Up, Home, Numbers

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• There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can't ever be entirely psychiatric. They're inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who's unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jobs, Reading, School

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