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I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.