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Have you heard about the MacDonald triad?" "Three traits shared by ninety-five percent of serial killers," said Dr. Neblin. "Bed-wetting, pyromania, and animal cruelty. You do, I admit, have all three.
I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
You crave chaos, you are happiest when the world is in an uproar, you thrive on madness.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career
I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not.
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
The Mask of Sanity - An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality.7
An intense life needs a touch of madness.
My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way..
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it ... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.
Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.
Madness is the result of unfulfilled wishes
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
this preoccupation with order, control,
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.
There is madness in the mind.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified ...
Stockholm syndrome,
Anxious, depressed, psychotic, lunatic, bipolar, manic - you name it, I attract it. Perhaps you've heard of me? In some circles I am known as the Pied Piper of Mental Illness.
When people are driven nearly mad, they are imbued with superhuman strength and are capable of almost supernatural deeds.
Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.
Crazy: the new normal.
Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.
what exactly is madness?
There is this place of insanity that lives deep inside everyone.
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.
There is madness in the every heart.
I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
Disordered house, disordered mind, disordered life,
I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.
To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.
If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
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.
There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.
The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.
The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected. What else can drive the bizarre shifts in the entertainment landscape that will keep us "buying"? Psychopathy is the only engine powerful enough to light our imaginations, to drive the arts, sciences and industries of the world.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.
I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.
Affective reactions resulting from fascination are dangerous; they amount to an invasion by the unconscious.
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
Every desire has a relation to madness.
The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...
Insanity is my dominant characteristic. - Christina McCall
There are three youthful behaviors that together make up what has come to be known as the homicidal triad: enuresis (bed-wetting) beyond an appropriate age, fire starting, and cruelty to animals and/or smaller children.
I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control - I freaked out.
I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
It's called "concoctulary,"2 y'all.
Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.
I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
You can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick.
A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.
Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.
Energy vampires" are people who constantly draw upon other people's energy in order to help "recharge" their own system.
caughtoutedness.
For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch!
Within obsession lies madness and genius
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
Really there was no deadlier combination than bookworm and megalomaniac. It was, for example, the crazed condition of many novelists and travelers.
With biological and neurological complexity entirely new families of affectionate fears, devoted threats and dedicated displeasures are birthed, and then with socioeconomic and cultural complexity comes a fresh ocean of new and unique illnesses.
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.
discombobulation
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
A psychopath's diet consisted of domination, power, and control.
There's a mysterious alter ego in everyone. Some call it hallucination, some call it art.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.