Quotes of: Personality-disorder Keyword

I've grown up with an ethic, call it a part, that insists I hide my pain at all costs. As I talk, I feel this pain leaking out—not just the core symptom of BPD, but all the years of being blamed or ignores for my condition, and all the years I've b...

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

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

David Mitchell

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.

St. Angela Merici

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Robert Atkins

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Joaquin Phoenix

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Jack Irons

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Richard J. Daley

A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.

Onyi Anyado

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

Jimmy Carr

Power is the best shield that the disordered personality can conceive against being revealed as the laughing stock he secretly suspects himself to be.

William Donaldson

Old age is a hundred disorders.

Welsh

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Richard J. Daley

Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

We need this help from the outside because we don't know how to to do this for ourselves. We start with a deep deficit—a chasm really—when it comes to understanding and being tolerant of ourselves, and that's even before we go forth to do battle ...

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

Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in the...

Shannon L. Alder

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Confessions

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Wallace Stevens

An ‘I don’t care’ attitude is a reflection of a feeble minded individual with a personality disorder; one who literally denies themselves of the very thing they hold dear to their heart.

TinMasun

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Michael Leunig