Quotes from Claire Weekes

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.

principle of treatment can be summarized as: Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.

Putting up with" means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one's horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.

The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.

Setback is like Grandma's muffins.

Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.

In other words, long, anxious brooding on any difficult life situation may gradually bring sensitization.

Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

Wait on no mood.

Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.

When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.

Sensitization alone is not enough, because without fear a body will quickly repair its sensitized state.

You who are suffering and read this, turn your attention to the way you think, not to your feelings. Come to terms with your attitude, and your feelings will look after themselves.