Terence McKenna Quotes

He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

I've always been a narcissist.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Narcissism is just self-confidence.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I've been wanting to do some type of video about the idea that YouTubers have to have some kind of personality disorder, something right, to do what we do. Putting ourselves on camera all the time, being so open on camera all the time, having conventions with our name in it. There has to be something.

Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.

Narcissism, like the other personality disorders, is a condition that's known as ego-syntonic. In other words, the paranoid person really does believe that people are after him, and the narcissist really does believe that he or she is better than or more entitled than other people, and truly doesn't see why that's not the case.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

When you're dead you don't have a mental problem.

I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.