Disorders Quotes

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won’t miss a thing.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Gemma was so determined for me to deal with my PTSD, but I thought I was doing pretty well with it. We were friends now. I had my incontinence under control ”
― Darynda Jones, Fifth Grave Past the Light

“As if your brain wants to kill your soul”
― Andy Alsanati

“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: "If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary

“Jack was the kind of guy you could take into any situation and he would figure out how to fit in. Wayne, not so much. So they didn't really ever bond."
"You know what we therapists say about people who fit in in every situation?"
"What?"
"They have no inherent genuine personality. They aren't themselves, they are only who they think the current audience expects them to be. Flawed though some of Wayne's actions may seem to you, at the end of the day he sounds like someone who isn't afraid to just be himself, all day, every day. That takes a fairly strong sense of self, to not go against your natural instincts, to not try to make yourself into something you aren't in order to be better liked or more homogenous."
"I never thought about it that way."
"Most people don't. But if you look at some of the truly great minds and artists of our history, they are often people who didn't necessarily fit, who were outside the norm. Some of them had actual disorders, many of the great minds are now presumed to have some level of Asperger's or low-level autistic tendencies, but a lot of them were just left of center."
"Are you saying that Wayne is a secret genius? Do I have a Jobs or Spielberg or something on my hands?"
"Of course not. I'm just saying that fitting in, or caring about fitting in, isn't necessarily in and of itself the world's most desirable trait.”
― Stacey Ballis, Out to Lunch

“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded—and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Anyone who suffers from anxiety or depression should remember that an unhappy gut can be the cause of an unhappy mind. Sometimes, the gut has a perfect right to be unhappy, if it is dealing with an undetected food intolerance, for example. We should not always blame depression on the brain or on our life circumstances - there is much more to us than that.”
― Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

“Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.”
― abbi glines, Existence

“Sleep disorders are a known occupational hazard to astronomers and their support staff.”
― Steven Magee

“Interestingly, the time in history when being multitalented was considered a boon was the very same period when people with eccentricities or even mental health disorders were treated as special.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I had noticed the onset of sickness that was consistent with sleep disorders and B12 deficiency during working extreme nights shifts at very high altitude atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“There was no monitoring of sleep in very high altitude workers that were sleeping at 9,200 feet. No warnings were given about high altitude induced sleep disorders.”
― Steven Magee

“While the doctor promised me I would feel better once on CPAP, the opposite happened. I was more fatigued than ever and I was now falling asleep while driving! I was sent on more sleep studies and given more diagnosis of sleep disorders.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“There are a lot of ill people out there that have personality issues.”
― Steven Magee

“People with sleep disorders should investigate sleeping on different types of bedding.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I was diagnosed with a range of sleep disorders after leaving my extreme night shift job.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Hypobaric therapy for treating human disorders is in its infancy.”
― Steven Magee

“I will be remembered by historians for many things, including hypobaric therapy for treating human disorders.”
― Steven Magee

“Hypobaric therapy for treating human disorders is one of my many areas of expertise.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you sleep better in a closed bedroom or a well-ventilated bedroom?”
― Steven Magee

“Your P.S.I. (Plastic Susceptibility Index) score will determine your susceptibility to neurological disorders on a scale of 1 - 10.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You can't get rid of microplastics, but they can get rid of you.”
― Anthony T. Hincks