Quotes About Recovery

IN ONE OF his last psychoanalytic papers, D. W. Winnicott wrote: Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.

It is possible, I think as I sit there on the cold wood of the bandstand bench, to see ailing marriages as brains that have undergone a stroke. Certain connections short-circuit, abilities are lost, cognition suffers, a thousand neural pathways close down forever. Some strokes are massive, seminal, unignorable; others imperceptible. I'm told it's perfectly possible to suffer one and not realize it until much later.

the time I spent in hospital is the hinge on which my childhood swung.

Her silver spoon was gone. She wasn't coming back.

One aspect of human resilience, in all its marvelousness, was the ability to recalibrate, to adjust to new circumstances

Sabes cuál es la diferencia entre un adicto y un enfermo?... Que el adicto puede dejar de serlo en cualquier momento y el enfermo no. Es tan sencillo como chasquear los dedos, decir basta. Se acabó.

Her mind cleared slightly, but she still didn't seem to be quite all there.

To heal at all, you need first to understand what is lost and why. I know of no fast way that might be done.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Le temps ferme toutes les blessures, même s'il ne nous épargne pas quelques cicatrices.

A broken heart hurts like hell, I know, but it's better than being so empty you've got nothing to cry about.

I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Wessex alone had survived, and Alfred had done his best to repair the damage it had suffered.

and systemic inflammation also result from not sleeping well.

unhealthy sleep are reversible when parents provide treatment. The younger the child, the more successful parents will be in reversing the ill effects of unhealthy sleep.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

Dr. Cottard felt bound to say good night as soon as they rose from table, so as to go back to some patient who was seriously ill; "I don't know," Mme. Verdurin would say, "I'm sure it will do him far more good if you don't go disturbing him again this evening; he will have a good night without you; to-morrow morning you can go round early and you will find him cured.

Wir werden von einem Leiden nur geheilt, indem wir es bis zum Letzten auskosten.

His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.

Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.

through our forwardness to suppress, and our backwardness to recover any enthralled piece of truth out of the gripe of custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all.