Quotes About Disorder

In some studies, brain scans of severely sleep-deprived individuals are similar to those of psychopaths, people with an extreme form of antisocial personality disorder.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

The defining feature of a major depression is loss of pleasure. If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

Cognitive therapists, like Aaron Beck of the University of Pennsylvania, even consider depression to be primarily a disorder of thought, rather than emotion, in that sufferers tend to see the world in a distorted, negative way.

This was based on studies of a rare disorder, congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). An enzyme in the adrenal glands has a mutation, and instead of making glucocorticoids, they make testosterone and other androgens, starting during fetal life.

Dirt is just matter out of place.

Strike that, no killing today, though depending on the level of stupid aimed at us, I was willing to look at a little mayhem.

The police feared riot and disorder so much, it was ordered that any person caught looting would be shot on sight--with no suggestion as to how the soldier or policeman might tell if the person in his sights was a looter or a rightful home-owner. (Locked Rooms, chapter 8.)

I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Every such regulation introduces some degree of real disorder into the constitution of the state, which it will be difficult afterwards to cure without occasioning another disorder.

in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.

Carroll and other physicists believe that order is intimately connected to the "arrow" of time. In particular, the forward direction of time is determined by the movement of order to disorder.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

The tendency of those with narcissistic disorder to project such dreaded aspects of self onto others leads them to keep such denigrated others at a distance, but also paradoxically binds them to others who contain devalued aspects of self

Or, as neurologist Jeffrey Victoroff describes it, "ADHD is a symptom in search of a disorder in search of a syndrome."38

The wasted time we are ashamed of, the temptations we succumb to, the weakness and discouragement in our work, the disorder and lack of discipline in our thinking and in our dealings with other people—all these very frequently have their cause in our neglect of morning prayer.

So the reason for our cleanliness becomes apparent; cleanliness is a form of apprehension; our faulty racial memory is fathered by fear. Destiny and history are untidy; we fear memory of that disorder.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.