Elizabeth George Quotes

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

He had delusions of adequacy.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

I listen to the voices.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.