“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.” — Benjamin Aubrey Myers Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I’m guessing this isn’t what he meant. My mom,… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
