#neurosis

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#being #i #i think #instead #involved

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inability #neurosis #tolerate

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

I write. I write that I am writing. Mentally I see myself writing that I'm writing and I can also see myself seeing that I am writing. I remember writing and also seeing myself writing. And I see myself remembering that I see myself writing and I remember seeing myself remembering that I was writing and I write seeing myself write that I remember having seen myself write that I saw myself writing that I was writing. I can also imagine myself writing that I had already written that I would imagine myself writing that I had written that I was imagining myself writing that I see myself writing that I am writing. ↗

— Salvador Elizondo

#writing #imagination

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#importance #nervous-breakdowns #neurosis #perspective #self-perception

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#certain degree #degree #drive #especially #inestimable

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#history #life #my life #neurosis #story

National isolation breeds national neurosis. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#isolation #national #neurosis

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#birth #body #brain #complicated #defect