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Quotes About Mental disorder

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.
~ Jon Ronson
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.
~ Jon Ronson
maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I
~ Jon Ronson
deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.
~ Agatha Christie
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.
~ Michael Savage
The suppression of awareness required by our universal practice of commodifying, enslaving, and killing animals for food generates the "built-in mental disorder" that drives us toward the destruction not only of ourselves but of the other living creatures and systems of this earth. Because this practice of exploiting and brutalizing animals for food has come to be regarded as normal, natural, and unavoidable, it has become invisible.
~ Will Tuttle
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.
~ Richard Rhodes
II y avait en elle un manque d'équilibre entre le sang et les nerfs, une sorte de détraquement du cerveau et du cÅ"ur, qui la faisait vivre en dehors de la vie ordinaire.
~ Émile Zola
The madness all over
~ Ernest Hemingway
Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression.
~ Jennifer Ashton
La gripe de los desequilibrios mentales
~ Rosa Montero
We should not have the ambition to label as mental disorder every inconvenient or distressing aspect of childhood.
~ Allen Frances
There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.
~ Allen Frances
Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder
~ Malcolm Gladwell
These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for treating mental disorder, and he increasingly devoted his energy to teaching others, whether as pupils or patients, the same methods he had perfected during his own confrontation with the unconscious and which he had excavated in all their bizarre ambiguity from an occult science of the seventeenth century.
~ Anthony Stevens
People were shown an online report through a fb post that a selfie is a mental disorder, and soon many of them started taking a selfie.
~ Anuj Somany
People were shown an online, credible report through fb that a selfie is a mental disorder, and soon many of them started posting own photo or a selfie.
~ Anuj Somany
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.
~ Arthur Koestler
No conceptually regimented and normatively informed theory of mental disorder can be devised without taking philosophy of mind seriously and knowing something about this subject area of philosophy and of such topics as consciousness, Intentionality, personal identity, the mind/body problem and rationality.
~ George Graham
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
There's a singular kind of desperation that links all of us who cannot conceive but think of nothing else. I wonder about us. What has made that message play over and over inside our heads? Is it biology? I want it to be that. I want the reason I sit on the toilet, hoping against hope, to be biological and not some kind of mental disorder.
~ Gregg Olsen
Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
~ Mary Lambert