Alice Weaver Flaherty

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.