Psychosis Quotes - Page 2

• Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Neurosis, Sin, Unnecessary

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.106, Hachette UK

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• My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).

  Richard Bentall

  Suicide, Brother, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
  It was hard.
  It was made of stone.
  It covered my face like a mask.
  But it has cracked.

  Anne Sexton

  Broken, Safe, Stones

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.

  Charlize Theron

  Jobs, Life And Love, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

  Clive Barker

  Anxiety, Special, Neurosis

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• Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Western

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• It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

  Rupert Everett

  Jealousy, Crazy, Clarity

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• Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

  Albert Ellis

  Religious, Personality, Religion

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• Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should be treated accordingly. It is like handcuffs to the mind and spirit and is nothing but destructive to mankind. In fact I don't really see Christianity as a religion. It is more like a spiritual plague, a mass psychosis, and it should first and foremost be treated as a problem to be solved by the medical science. Christianity is a diagnosis. It's like Islam and the other Asian religions, a HIV/AIDS of the spirit and mind.

  Varg Vikernes

  Spiritual, Mind, Islam

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• But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Men, Emotional, Frustration

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Thinking, Violent Acts, Self

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• If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

  Jan Burke

  Ideas, Internet, Given

  Jan Burke (2012). “Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

  Richard Bentall

  Environmental, Trying, Toxic

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  Eddie Izzard

  Character, Play, People

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

  Henry Miller

  Silence, Fans, Pests

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• If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses

  Carl Jung

  Emotional, Sick, Secret

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spring, Mean, Names

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• What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Needs, Alive, Companionship

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

  Tom Hardy

  Way, Fit, Cauldrons

  "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal.

  Sydney Walker

  Drug Use, Differences, Abuse

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• Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction." Holly lifted her visor and looked the hormonal teenager in the eye. "This had better not be a game, Artemis. If you do not have some serious psychosis, you will be sorry." "Oh, I'm crazy, alright. I do have plenty of psychoses," said Orion Cheerily. "Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Running, Sorry, Crazy

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• At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Eye, Ice, Brain

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• The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Crazy, Gun

  "Exasperated Obama: Inability to get tougher gun laws shameful" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2014.

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• LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Drug, Lsd

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• Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Neurosis

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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