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Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our - Georg

Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our – George Vaillant

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg

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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. – Luis Bunuel

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. – Marshall McLuhan

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We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Pride is the mask of ones own faults. – Yiddish Proverb

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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