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“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 the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.”

“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 coexisted with these states.”

Believe Kind States Sex Violence Ties Temporary Spells Erotic Psychosis

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“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 the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.”

“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.”

“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 it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.”

Way Reality Common Victim Faults Patterns Eras Acquire Delusion Right Way Observing Syndromes Psychosis

Author:Spider Robinson

“Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.”

Firsts Analysis Similarity Neurosis Psychosis Depressive

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.”

Giving Years Nations Policy Six Sentences Insanity Marijuana Users Murderer Joints Imprisonment Psychosis Parole

Author:Eric Schlosser

“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 hurting the baby or killing yourself.”

Ends Hurt Conditions Serious Baby Killing Psychosis Killing Yourself Postpartum

Author:Marie Osmond

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

Ifs Ideas Given Internet Psychosis

Book:Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel

Source: Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel

“I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”

Moving Spirit Faster Jet Camels Psychosis Old Saying Lag Jet Lag

Author:Spalding Gray

“Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.”

“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.”

Thinking Littles Self Forget Levels Habit Profound Violent Phases Bizarre Anorexia Quirky Bulimia Psychosis Violent Acts

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.”

Children Stories Moving Language Darkness Heard Goes On Adults Threat Addiction Oppression Torture Survived Symptoms Resorts Repression Heed Psychosis Criminality Abused Children

Author:Alice Miller

“In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty for which his work is deservedly known. This book is incisive, startling, and often genuinely moving.”

Book Inspiration Moving Known Honesty Bottom Passionate Apocalypse Frontiers Expressive Psychosis Fervor

Author:Madison Smartt Bell

“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.”

Ifs Men Needs Wells Important Bits Simple Produce Emotional Mets Degrees Anxiety Hunger Uncomfortable Isolation Frustration Shelter Thirst Requirements Neurosis Psychosis Emotional Needs

Book:Love

Source: Love

“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”

Thinking World Needs Ideas Ends Problem Lying Lines Views Amount Reasoning Temples Excess Abandoned Contemplating Primitive Colleagues Inability Subjective Spectrum Psychosis Psychiatric

Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence”

Seems Fate Violence Ideals Psychosis Irresponsibility Psychopathic

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.”

Soul Suffering Passion Community Threat Scales Indication Schooling Beam Neurosis Psychosis Tilt Psychoanalytic

Book:Écrits: a selection

Source: Écrits: a selection

“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”

“When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.”

World Seems Difficult Patient Features Manifest Cardinals Inhibitions Psychosis Rapport Depressive

Book:Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

Source: Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones

“Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.”

Difficult Violence Angry Illness Mood Irrational Restless Psychosis Tiresome

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”

Ideas Facts Feelings Reality Dear Scary Frightening Captains Detachment Psychosis

Author:Leonard Mlodinow

“Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.”

Knows Feels Dating Online Feel Better Get Real Profile Psychosis Online Dating

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.”

World Conflict Ego Narcissistic Neurosis Psychosis Outer Worlds Transference

Book:Collected papers ...

Source: Collected papers ...

“LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.”

Source: When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition

“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.”

Needs Should Humans Sometimes Human Beings Alive One Thing Realism Companionship Psychosis

Book:The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Crazy Clarity Jealousy Jealous Psychotic Psychosis

Author:Rupert Everett

“Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.”

Problem Suffering Dies Suicide Rate Decades Host Homosexual Psychosis Malady Ku Klux Klan

Author:David Duke

“Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.”

Meditation Slips Neurosis Psychosis

Author:Rajneesh

“I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.”

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