Quotes About Neurosis

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Whenever an emotion arises in the space of our awareness, it creates a powerful wind that can be either harnessed as wisdom or fixated upon and treated neurotically and destructively.

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

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

Ill health is a form of trouble, as are alcoholism and drug addiction, proneness to accidents, all neurosis including compulsive screwing-up, and such seemingly benign foibles as jealousy, chronic lateness, and the blasting of rap music at 110 dB from your smoked-glass '95 Supra.

for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

Underlying our whole outlook is a neurotic conviction of our own limitations.

In breaking down the developmental journey through successive states of psychic organization, Mahler enabled clinicians to understand more deeply and treat more effectively children and adults who came to be officially diagnosed as borderline patients, whose severe pathology fell between the classifications of neurosis and psychosis.

What does borderline personality mean, anyhow? It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche. Though to quote my post-Melvin psychiatrist: It's what they call people whose lifestyles bother them.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll e flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Nëse të qenit neurotike do të thotë të duash dy gjëra, që në të njëjtën kohë e përjashtojnë njëra-tjetrën, atëherë unë jam neurotike si dreqi. Dhe për sa të kem jetë, unë do të rend pra, pas këtyre gjërave që përjashtojnë njëra-tjetrën.

if neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then i'm neurotic as all hell

Se nevrotico vuol dire desiderare contemporaneamente due cose che si escludono a vicenda, allora io sono nevrotica all'ennesima potenza. Volerò su e giù dall'una all'altra per il resto dei miei giorni.

Freud is all nonsense; the secret of neurosis is to be found in the family battle of wills to see who can refuse the longest to help with the dishes.

Nadie que busque realmente encuentra. La búsqueda es producto de la neurosis. Los encuentros, en cambio, son producto de una ley universal que rige cada movimiento y nos conduce hacia donde tenemos que ir. Nada