If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
Philip K. DickTags: humor optimism pessimism universe irony schizophrenia
Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
Mark VonnegutTags: schizophrenia
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.
Ross David BurkeTags: music dream mental-illness schizophrenia discontinuity
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.
Philip K. DickTags: perception reality philosophy madness epistemology solipsism postmodern schizophrenia
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R.D. LaingTags: despair schizophrenia psychosis psychopathy
I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than what." "Oh, sure there is," Sadie said. She sat back in her chair. "First you have your generic depressives. They're a dime a dozen and usually pretty boring. Then you've got the bulimics and the anorexics. They're slightly more interesting, although usually they're just girls with nothing better to do. Then you start getting into the good stuff: the arsonists, the schizophrenics, the manic-depressives. You can never quite tell what those will do. And then you've got the junkies. They're completely tragic, because chances are they're just going to go right back on the stuff when they're out of here." "So junkies are at the top of the crazy chain," I said. Sadie shook her head. "Uh-uh," she said. "Suicides are." I looked at her. "Why?" "Anyone can be crazy," she answered. "That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?
Michael Thomas FordTags: humor drug funny drugs suicide crazy anorexia junkie schizophrenia manic-depression depressed arsonist arsonists bulimia depressives druggie junkies schizophrenics
Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
Emilie AutumnTags: insanity schizophrenia
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Kevin Alan LeeTags: politics society philosophy psychology humanism memoir government medicine culture political-science psychiatry socialism health-care mental-illness schizophrenia medical reference health-care-system split-mind
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph CampbellTags: metaphor attributed mysticism schizophrenia psychosis
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.
Mira BartokTags: secrets schizophrenia
Page 1 of 3.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.