Quotes About Disorder

This pelvic preoccupation with women's rampant innards had more of a comic effect, however. Since women were seen as reproductive beings, any and every disorder they experienced was treated by treatment of the reproductive organs.

If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.

They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

In those times panics were common

We should not have the ambition to label as mental disorder every inconvenient or distressing aspect of childhood.

A ranting psychotic is far enough away from mean to be recognized as mentally sick by your aunt Tilly, but how do you decide when everyday anxiety or sadness is severe enough to be considered mental disorder? One thing does seem perfectly clear. On the statistical face of it, it is ridiculous to stretch disorder so elastically that the near average person can qualify. Shouldn't most people be normal?

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

Psychiatric disorder consists of symptoms and behaviors that are not self-correcting - a breakdown in the normal homeostatic healing process. Diagnostic inflation occurs when we confuse the typical perturbations that are part of everyone's life with true psychiatric disorder[.]

I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Homesickness was an adjustment disorder, that was the long and short of it.

I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

Get Off Your Ritalin and Adderall. The whole point of life is to enjoy your Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Things are messed up in the world, that's all.

Morals lead to order; passions lead to revolution.

She did not acknowledge that her brain was warped, for the brain itself must assist in that acknowledgement, and she was disordering the very instruments of life.

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.