Quotes About Mental

The health problems caused by clutter aren't just physical. In 1996, psychologists defined compulsive hoarding syndrome as a psychological disorder. In homes with severe cluttering, the residents nearly always suffer from anxiety or depression or both.

They developed the confidence to bounce back from adversity and tap into a source of inner strength many of them had never experienced before. They faced their demons head-on and didn't blink.

And in my case I kept thinking, If I only was stronger mentally, psychologically, and everything, to bear these responsibilities. And in point of fact there was no way anybody could stand that situation. No way. It was not an indication of psychological weakness. It was an indication of not facing reality, but a peculiar kind, you see.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you. I know, Benteley agreed. I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere, and not reacting—do you see? I guess you don't. But that used to be considered a sign of mental illness; they called it 'absence of appropriate affect.

Another fantasy film rolled suddenly into his head, without his consent:

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts....

the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Mental illness is not funny.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer. Ouvir Gloria pedir racionalmente para morrer era inalar o contágio. Era uma armadilha de dedos chinesa, na qual, quanto mais você puxa os dedos para sair, mais apertada a armadilha fica. - valis

Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

Let it be said that one of the first symptoms of psychosis is that the person feels perhaps he is becoming psychotic.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

It's a dream, Pris said. Induced by drugs that Roy gave me. P-pardon? You really think that bounty hunters exist? Mr. Baty said they killed your friends. Roy Baty is as crazy as I am, Pris said. Our trip was between a mental hospital on the East Coast and here. We're all schizophrenic, with defective emotional lives — flattening of affect, it's called. And we have group hallucinations.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

sometimes the best response to reality is to go insane