#psychology

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#mental-health #psychology #mental-health

On Prozac, Sisyphus might well push the boulder back up the mountain with more enthusiasm and creativity. I do not want to deny the benefits of psychoactive medication. I just want to point out that Sisyphus is not a patient with a mental health problem. To see him as a patient with a mental health problem is to ignore certain larger aspects of his predicament connected to boulders, mountains, and eternity. ↗

— Carl Elliott

#psychiatry #psychology #mental-health

Steve [sports psychiatrist] had already taught me to try and stop worrying so much about pleasing everyone. We knew that this was one of my most draining flaws and he again used three groups to clarify my thinking. There would always be some people, Steve said, who would care about me and love me. In contrast there would also be a select group of people who would never warm to me - no matter what I did. And in the middle came the overwhelming mass who were largely indifferent to any of my failures or triumphs. I needed to understand that most people didn't really care what I did or said. All my anguish about how they might perceive me was redundant. Steve helped me realize that I spent too much time trying to please those oblivious people in the middle or, more problematically, the small group who would never change their critical opinion of me. I should concentrate on the people who really did show concern for me. ↗

— Victoria Pendleton

#mental-health #psychiatry #psychology #sports #change

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#actual #completely #conceive #doing #facebook

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#meditation #mindfulness #psychology #art

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#difficult #go #important #life #make

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#anything #competing #down #else #go

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#first of all #physiological #psychology #therefore

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#cinema #freud #i #like #marx

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such. ↗

— Dane Cook

#am #how #i #i am #into