Top 6 Rachel Aviv Quotes (2025 Update)

Rachel Aviv Quote: “People can feel freed by these stories, but they can also get stuck in them.”

1. “People can feel freed by these stories, but they can also get stuck in them.”

2. “The philosopher Ian Hacking uses the term “looping effect” to describe the way that people get caught in self-fulfilling stories about illness. A new diagnosis can change “the space of possibilities for personhood,” he writes. “We make ourselves in our own scientific image of the kinds of people it is possible to be.”

— Rachel Aviv

3. “I’m doing better now. I’m assimilating into what I’d like to think is a normal existence. And I don’t want contact with the prior life. You make me vulnerable.”

— Rachel Aviv

4. “It’s startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”

— Rachel Aviv

5. “Mental illnesses are often seen as chronic and intractable forces that take over our lives, but I wonder how much the stories we tell about them, especially in the beginning, can shape their course.”

— Rachel Aviv

6. “The divide between the psychic hinterlands and a setting we might call normal is permeable, a fact that I find both haunting and promising. It’s startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”

— Rachel Aviv

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