Lori

“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

“To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can’t cope with your personal life; it is courageous. Nor is it weak to seek help from a wise therapist.”
― 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

“You say that you really don’t want to get sick again. But wellness is still, in this area, associated not with achieving control of your problem, but with discontinuation of medication: “Well, I sure hope you get off sometime soon,” they say.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon