Psychosis Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. — Clive Barker
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna
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… — Sigmund Freud
LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it. — Timothy Leary
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… — Barack Obama
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,… — Alastair Reynolds
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is… — Philip K. Dick
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on… — David Foster Wallace
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they… — Lorrie Moore
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that… — Andrea Yates
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… — Thomas Merton
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.… — Varg Vikernes
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and… — Spider Robinson
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a… — Eric Schlosser
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… — Sydney Walker
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either… — Marie Osmond
If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed. — Jan Burke
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel. — Spalding Gray

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