Occupation: Psychologist Birth: June 22, 1946
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't ….
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was d….
I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years.….
It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to hav….
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy..
Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were cer….
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression..
Without science, there would be no such hope..
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive ….
One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest..
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put….
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depr….
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses..
Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy.
The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and….
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it..
I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that….
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again..
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of….
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressi….
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were..