I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! Quotes

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take up ranks with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
—Theodore Roosevelt—”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. —Helen Keller—”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“The “three A’s” to use when giving your contrary opinions are apologize (for your opinion’s emotional impact), acknowledge (that you could be wrong), and agree (to disagree).”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“Professor Dumbledore’s answer to Harry Potter’s question, quoted at the start of this chapter, is exactly right. For all intents and purposes, your loved one’s experience is very real indeed. To him, he is truly not sick. If you can relate to your loved one in this way, you will be much closer to becoming his ally and working together to find the reasons he may have to accept treatment—even though he is not sick. You don’t have to agree with his reality—the “realness” of his experience—but you do need to listen and genuinely respect it.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“The first step is to stop arguing and start listening to your loved one in a way that leaves him feeling that his point of view—including his delusional ideas and the belief that he is not sick—is being respected.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“Remember, the cause of the severe and persistent “denial” may be less important than how you choose to deal with it. The fact that the person you’re helping does not see what you see and, his or her belief cannot be changed, is all you need to know to move forward.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“A majority of individuals with Schizophrenia have poor insight regarding the fact that they have a psychotic illness. Evidence suggests that poor insight is a manifestation of the illness itself rather than a coping strategy… comparable to the lack of awareness of neurological deficits seen in stroke, termed anosognosia.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“The need for proper follow-up with a trusted mental health professional cannot be over-emphasized”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“The last myth proved false by recent research concerns the idea that when one is seriously mentally ill, insight into illness leads to demoralization, depression, and suicidal thoughts. Having said that, suicide is clearly a very serious problem in both depression and schizophrenia, as estimates are that as many as one out of every ten persons with schizophrenia will die from suicide.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“wouldn’t blame you if you were sometimes tempted to let the problem slide. Whether you are family, friend, therapist, or police officer simply trying to help, eventually you get tired of being told, “There’s nothing wrong with me—I don’t need help.” Often, we feel helpless. Certainly, when the person is not causing problems and things are going generally well, it’s easy to ignore the problems of denial and treatment refusal. During those times, we’re tempted to sit back and wait for the next crisis to force the issue or to hope (our own form of denial) that the disease has gone away. It’s always much easier to pretend the situation is not as bad as it appears because facing the reality of the illness can feel intimidating and hopeless.”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

“LEAP®”; “L.E.A.P.®“;“Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner®”; “Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner®”
― Xavier Amador, I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition