Quotes of: Disorder Keyword

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

David D. Burns

A substantial minority of DID patients report sadistic, exploitive, and coercive abuse at the hands of organized groups. Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision

James A. Chu

Pat: [to his mother] Danny was in for assault because of crystal meth and alcohol. Danny: Bad combination. Pat: On top of an anxiety disorder.

Silver Linings Playbook

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Rachel Cusk

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

Aditi Shankardass

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.

Andrew Weil

If your dog, your best friend turns on you, take a good look at yourself. You may have a serious personality disorder.

Will Leamon

Justice Denied Thousands of women, probably more I cannot reach them behind justice doors Many stay silent, barred just like me. Haunted by demons, faces unseen. Still by the hundreds, they continue to serve Duty and country, active and reserve. Than...

Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

I’m not interested in Bob Marley telling me to ‘lively up’ myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails and Trent Reznor’s voice crying through industrial rhytms. In the August evenings, I lie on my bed with earphones, letting ...

The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999) among a nonclinical sample of 258 male and female college students. Predictor va...

Shannon N. Baugher

you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of action itself, of lack of order. But everything is disorder, dear boy. Vegetable, mineral and animal, all disorder, and so ...

Blaise Cendrars

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

The Demon Headmaster

Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Home to Holly Springs

An institution is right or it is wrong. One that cannot accept dinosaur bones is one that cannot be trusted on more important matters.

Triggered: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

The Woman in White