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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
The significant question is whether the activity pursued permits the release of tension without resolving the underlying conflict. If so, the conflict still remains, and hence the activity must be engaged in repeatedly. We then may have the beginning of compulsion neurosis.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
May we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization - possibly the whole of mankind - have become 'neurotic'?
So maybe it's just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can't be a good thing.
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.
The alleged 'sensitivity' of neurotic people is matched by their egotism; they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an ever-increasing attention in themselves.
I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
To think too much is a disease.
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.
Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
Every age has its own collective neurosis, and every age needs its own psychotherapy to cope with it.
Neurotic anxiety, therefore, is that which occurs when the incapacity for coping adequately with threats is not objective but subjective - I.e., is due not to objective weakness but to inner psychological patterns and conflicts which prevent the individual from using his powers.
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
This disease of curiosity.
The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
The search for safety takes its clearest form ... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis ... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
The line between 'normal' and 'neurotic' begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive - that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.
The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.
Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
Nerds obsess. We zealously deconstruct. We have a very active internal monologue (which may feel more like a dialogue sometimes). I think that so many of the things we undertake are a partial attempt to distract this monologue. We are hyper-self-aware. We have difficulty chilling out.
Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be cured. Dr. Franz Weiss
Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
A large part of many people's lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things. This
A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.
The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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.
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that melancholia is the model of this group, and then we should put in a claim for the name of "narcissistic psychoneuroses" for these disorders.
I was neurotic and weird from an early age.
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.
Any form of negative rumination - for example, worrying about your financial future or health - will stimulate the release of destructive neurochemicals.
Everybody's a bit screwed up, you know. You can take it as symptoms of a disorder, or you can take it as personality. Me, I'd rather think it as parts of personality.
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient
Bitch Personality Disorder
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment.
Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'
malady of reverie.
You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.
Within obsession lies madness and genius
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
procrastination,
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
The person with neurotic anxiety endeavors to run away from some elements within herself or himself. This can be accomplished only by dissociating these elements, which sets up inner contradictions.
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
All currency is neurotic currency.
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
With me; it's just a genetic dissatisfaction with everything.
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.
We might say that both the artist and the neurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active work project
write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers. Title
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.
The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities ...
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords.