Zitat des Tages über Schizophrenie / Schizophrenia:
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.
I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.