Category: Quotes and Useful Links

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value to joy, you must have somebody to divide it with”

I went to a conference yesterday on ‘Recovery Oriented Services in Mental Health’. There was an Incredibly courageous and inspiring account of recovery by Shanon – the growth and learning that can come out of difficulties and the vital need to be seen beyond a diagnosis of bipolar, or label and instead as a person. This can also be seen on her Ted Talk:

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness”

Fight Against Fears by Lucy Freeman is a very accessible book, making psychoanalytic concepts easily understandable. Really worth reading.

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings”