Quotes About Andrew Solomon

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

Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital.

In his classic work Stigma, Erving Goffman argues that identity is formed when people assert pride in the thing that made them marginal, enabling them to achieve personal authenticity and political credibility.

All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others.

Woody Allen once quipped that dwarf is once of the four funniest words in the English language. To be in your very essence perceived as comical is a significant burden.

The wish to fix people reflects pessimism about their condition and optimism about the method of repair.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety.