Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when they don't hold them, and the more strongly they hold them, the more disturbed they tend to be.
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
The frequencies in my head are not known to normals!
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
