Quotes About Dysfunction

It's easy enough to notice how often dysfunctional families and societies finally collapse into an orgy of mutual blaming. That's satanic work.

Attempting to suppress emotions is dysfunctional; it does not work. Emotions are energy: E-motion = energy in motion. It is supposed to be in motion, it was meant to flow.

The most common problem I find among silent sons is their belief that they're just like everybody else. In other words, many either believe that their family was not dysfunctional (when in fact it was) or believe that it was dysfunctional, but they were not affected. This is not unusual for men. The following are some classic behavior patterns in silent sons.

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent; the sober parent deceived the drinking parent. Most children of alcoholics have learned that no one can be trusted.

Be grateful, then, that you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or fed up with what is not feeding you. Toleration of dysfunction only keeps it in force. Refuse to put up with what is not working, and you will find your way to your perfect place in the Great Design.

She said several times that Malcolm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.)

My parents were consistently inconsistent.

idea that Washington would work better if there were TV cameras monitoring every conversation gets it exactly wrong…. The lack of opportunities for honest dialogue and creative give-and-take lies at the root of today's dysfunction.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Something has crumbled inside him. Something has broken. Like corrupt clockwork in a smashed watch.

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

Sometimes when you have a disconnect within your team, there's no way you can win.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

kind of person who could achieve anything if only he wasn't dysfunctional enough not to.

According to the basic narrative of the Old Testament, God's answer to human dysfunction was the formation of a people after his own heart.

In a family there is always something or other going awry… Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

In a severely dysfunctional home such as this, where there are apparently insurmountable difficulties, the family will focus on other, simpler problems that hold some promise of being solvable. Lisa's schoolwork and grades thus became everyone's focus, including Lisa's. The family needed to believe that this problem was one which, if rectified, would bring harmony.

Dependen?a de munc? este una din modalit??ile folosite adeseori de b?rba?ii din familiile cu disfuc?ionalit??i pentru a se evita pe sine, dup? cum a iubi prea mult este unul din primele mijloace de evitare folosite de femeile din acest tip de familii.

A child uncertain of its birth date is a classic symptom of dysfunction within a family.

I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.

My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese.

No one outside of our family unit would ever guess that away from prying eyes, we were systematically tearing ourselves apart. Away from the outside world, everyone in our family started to fall to pieces, and never really recovered. Even though our times together are always fun and laughter-filled, the closeness we once shared is gone. In its place is guilt, regret, the ability to say the nastiest things and, for the longest minute on earth, mean every word of them