#psychos

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis. ↗

— Brad Holland

#another #believe #called #emotions #equation

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#because #being #between #character #comedy

And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#psychosis #imagination

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#homosexuality #i #i think #kind #middle

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#jews #nationality #other #people #psychosis

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#artificially #bred #country #economy #fear

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#baby #bad #called #condition #either

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. ↗

— Helen Suzman

#build #government #mill #psychosis #stories

Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos. ↗

— Lisa O'Donnell

#rain #death