Andrew Solomon Quotes About Illness

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

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

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• 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.

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  Depression  

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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  Depression  

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

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