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This is the dysfunction talking. This is the disease talking. This is how much I miss you talking. This is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.
The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.
Disordered house, disordered mind, disordered life,
Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.
The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
Family and dysfunction went together like peanut butter and jelly. Family sagas. Everything would be okay. But how?
As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
Distress is a disease of the mind.
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.
Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction ...
Even boredom has its crises.
The great unspoken paradox of the arduous process of psychoanalysis is that the best patients are the ones who never really needed it in the first place. Abnormal
mean is the cause-- Aristotle.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
Disorder in here harshing my mellow.
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
Misery loves company
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
Religion was no cure for dysfunction.
Misery loves company
Tragically
When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than when emotion plays bad tricks on our decisions.
Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.
Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is created (Lyons-Ruth, Dutra, Schuder, & Bianchi, 2006).
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location.
The loneliness of power.
The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
TEMPORARY INSANITY.
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.
Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.
The cycles of dysfunction and mental illness did not have to carry over from generation to generation. You just had to educate yourself. Erika
Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not yet functioning together in a smooth, coordinated, flexible way. P14
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
subjective disturbance
We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.
The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.
I was born an emotional tampon in a cauldron of dysfunction.
There is no disorder but the heart's.
A corruption of intentions.
When the subjects are not "in flow" theyencountertheworld as resistant, as blocking rather than enabling an action. Unhappy subjects hence feel alienated from the world as they experience the world as alien
For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.
And madness? Madness is the inability to communicate.
When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.
My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
psychological reactance.
The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.
Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
Plenty of 'sane' people can't manage to keep it all under control. Their mental state - stress, anxiety, frustration - gets in the way of their ability to be happy.
Sanderson, Brandon (2012-09-11). Legion (Kindle Locations 549-551). Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. Kindle Edition.
Insanity, thy name is woman
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.
I don't mind the term functional medicine
I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.
Sanity is for the weak
rise of frustration.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Madness is the result of unfulfilled wishes
Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.
What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.
Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.
If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.
Yep, we both put the "fun" in dysfunctional when it came to romance.
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
I had an attachment disorder.
Reason is the illusion of reality
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
We've become something of a family.
A dysfunctional, fucked up family.
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
[Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions