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Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Born: March 30, 1876

Died: July 9, 1943 (aged 67)

Bio: Clifford Whittingham Beers was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement.

Known for:

A mind that found itself
The Mental Hygiene Movement (1917)
A Mind that Found Itself: An Autobiography (1903)

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