Psychosis Quotes

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
― R.D. Laing

“Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.”
― David Bowie

“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.”
― Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).”
― Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And—how many of us do know it?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.”
― T. Mountebank, Sister Sable

“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.”
― Sigmund Freud, General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

“Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.”
― Gellu Naum

“Some psychic bombardment of the will to live had begun, a new particle of love's mysterious atom had been discovered — the itch to jump.”
― Norman Mailer, An American Dream

“A contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via an insidious collective psychosis of titanic proportions. This mind-virus—which Native Americans have called “wetiko”—covertly operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests. Wetiko is a psychosis in the true sense of the word, “a sickness of the spirit.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“An inner cancer of the soul, wetiko covertly influences our perceptions so as to act itself out through us while simultaneously hiding itself from being seen. Wetiko bewitches our consciousness so that we become blind to the underlying, assumed viewpoint through which we perceive, conjure up, and give meaning to our experience of both the world and ourselves. This psychic virus can be thought of as the bug in “the system” that informs and animates the madness that is playing out in our lives, both individually and collectively, on the world stage.”
― Paul Levy, Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World

“Psychosis means being locked up in a dark square and unable to find yourself.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“It can be quite challenging to constantly remind ourselves that the reality we experience is merely a construct of our own minds. Despite our efforts to ground ourselves in the present, we often find ourselves getting caught up in the illusion of this fabricated world. However, it is imperative that we do not lose sight of the fact that none of this is real. The material possessions, societal norms, and societal expectations that we often place great value on are merely man-made constructs. It is crucial to maintain a sense of detachment and perspective, and to remember that ultimately, true reality lies beyond the physical realm.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Voices echo where silence should reign, shadows twist around reality's edge.
Thoughts fracture like glass under unseen hands,
and the mind drifts in a storm of its own making!”
― Andy Alsanati

“I know wholeheartedly that prescribing benzodiazepines again would restore a significant amount of the degeneration and restore the pleasure of life within a mere 20 minutes, despite the potential adverse effects. I can confidently assert that akathisia is the most detrimental condition in existence.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“There is a vast, ceaseless battle going on for each of our souls in the unseen world. It is a war between good and evil, darkness and light, and whether we recognize it or not, it confronts our lives every day.”
― Elise Monet, Faith in the Inferno: The Development of a Baby Boomer's Spiritual Consciousness

“There is a vast, ceaseless spiritual battle going on for each of our souls in the unseen world. It is a war between good and evil, darkness and light, and whether we recognize it or not, it confronts our lives every day.”
― Elise Monet, Faith in the Inferno: The Development of a Baby Boomer's Spiritual Consciousness

“Medications are from Planet Earth, my Psychosia are not — and my Consciousness is not restricted/limited/bound to Earth.”
― Sino Melo

“Too many Doctors never had a Psychosis and never take their own Medications – that's like someone watching Basketball and automatically thinks that he can play the Game.. or even thinks he's an NBA Professional.”
― Sino Melo

“You can't judge a Psychosis, unless you endured one – just as you can't judge running a Marathon, unless you endured one.”
― Sino Melo

“Crows played a significant Role during my Psychosis, they reminded me of the Apocalypse – even nowadays, their cawing reminds me to stay humble.”
― Sino Melo

“A Psychosis in a Human is a Fight between the Brain and the Heart – sometimes even between the two Hemispheres of the Brain – and sometimes all together.”
― Sino Melo

“Every Psychosis is one of a kind, just like every Human, every Animal, every Plant and every Moment is one of a kind – unless there are identical Copies of our Universe.”
― Sino Melo

“You can read Books about War, you can watch Movies and News about War, yet being in War is something very different – same with Psychosia, the War within yourself.”
― Sino Melo

“Fantasy + unfulfilled Wishes are the Ingredients, Space the Oven, Psychosis the Dish.”
― Sino Melo

“Let the ominous one find me,
not to visit, but to finish.
Brief, brutal,
a silence carved from screams.

Let the lock stay open,
the air thick with rot and mercy.
No more rehearsals of shame,
no more days on this damned spinning rock.

I've already died,
but I wake too often.
Let tonight be the last mistake.
Let nothing ever come after.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, The Dreamer Sleeps Without Dreaming

“As they walked back to Dr Russell’s office she remembered the day it all began. She was in the kitchen on the farm, washing the dishes when she heard voices coming from the living room. She dried her hands with a tea towel and went to turn off the television. When she entered the living room she stopped abruptly. The television was off, but she could still hear voices coming from it.” In Treatment”
― Amra Pajalic, The Cuckoo's Song