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Quotes About Disorder

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
~ John Dufresne
I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
~ Sophie Swetchine
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
The term attention deficit disorder completely misses this point. It is not a deficit of attention that we ADD-ers have, it is that our attention likes to go where it wants to and we can't always control it.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
ADHD" is a term that describes a way of being in the world. It is neither entirely a disorder nor entirely an asset. It is an array of traits specific to a unique kind of mind. It can become a distinct advantage or an abiding curse, depending on how a person manages it.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
With every step forward we become more sure what the disorder is not: it is not willful misbehaving, it is not a moral failing, it is not a lack of trying nor an inability to take an interest in the world. Neurobiological data now show that the syndrome is rooted in the central nervous system.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The clinician's challenge is to find a way to allow the ADD person to put on the brakes. From a biological perspective, one of the most successful strategies has been the use of medications.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.
~ Edward Shorter
many HSPs have Seasonal Affective Disorder. This does not mean every HSP; it is just a bit more common in us.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Your confusion and self-doubt are important warning signals that you may be encountering someone who has a narcissistic personality disorder.
~ Eleanor D. Payson
But not even then did I lose my composure. I continued to proceed with circumspection, as I always had before the accidents of life. The only external sign of my agitation was an inclination to disorder and a weakness in my fingers, and, the more the anguish increased, the harder they found it to close solidly around things.
~ Elena Ferrante
had always studied in disorder.
~ Elena Ferrante
No institution- behind the façade, behind the pompous name and the numerous employees- truly functioned. No decipherable order, only an unruly and uncontrollable crowd on streets cluttered with sellers of every possible type of merchandise, people speaking at the top of their lungs, urchins, beggars.
~ Elena Ferrante
En qué desorden vivíamos, cuántos fragmentos de nosotros mismos salían volando como si vivir fuese estallar en esquirlas.
~ Elena Ferrante
In quale disordine vivevamo, quanti frammenti di noi stessi schizzavano via come se vivere fosse esplodere in schegge.
~ Elena Ferrante
Leo muchísimo pero sin ningún orden, y olvido lo que leo.
~ Elena Ferrante
In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.
~ Elena Ferrante
To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
~ Antonia Young
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
~ Antonin Artaud
History is never tidy.
~ Antony Beevor
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
Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.
~ Art Berg