There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 10%… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.” — James Curcio Copy Share Image
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.” — Christian Baloga Copy Share Image
“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some… — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Altogether, these observations suggest that several processes contribute to psychotic experience: the loss of familiarity with the world, hypothetically associated with noisy… — Andreas Heinz Copy Share Image
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
