Lori

“are based on the principle that naming something is a good way to subdue it, and that knowing the source of a problem is useful in solving that problem.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“When I said that I had a history of mental illness, I was told that in that case I could not well expect anyone to take my views on these things seriously. “I’m a trained professional and I’m here to help you,” the doctor said. When I said that I was an experienced patient and knew that what she was doing was in fact injurious to me, she told me that I had not been to medical school and would just have to proceed according to what she judged an appropriate protocol.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“I believe that the emergency room policy in which saying “I have had severe psychotic depression exacerbated by extreme pain” is treated much the same as saying “I have to have a woolly teddy bear with me before you can use sutures” is unacceptable.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon

“I deplore the cynics who keep suffering patients from the essentially benign cures that might give them back their lives.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon