It's All in Your Head Quotes

“People look for explanations for changes in their bodies, something to account for every unpleasant feeling. There is an unwillingness to accept behavioural or emotional factors, or the effects of aging, as an explanation.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

“All my patients are individuals with their own story to tell, their own set of problems and their own solution. Even where the symptoms of their distress are very similar, the roads that bring them to me are not. Each of them teaches me something important, just as each new patient I meet reminds me that there is always more to learn.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

“Those who struggle with the diagnosis may seek the opinion of doctor after doctor in the hope of finding a different explanation — and validation of their suffering. Repeatedly normal test results begin to seem a disappointment, so desperate is the patient’s search for another answer. Some find themselves pushed into a corner where they accept the role of the undiagnosed, someone who cannot be helped, because anything is better than the humiliation of a psychological disorder. Society is judgmental about psychological illness and patients know that.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

“La negación del diagnóstico es mucho más ardua de contrarrestar que el enojo o la ira y, además, tiene muchas menos posibilidades de desembocar en una recuperación.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, Todo está en tu cabeza: Historias reales de enfermedades imaginarias