You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.
Yeah,' said Al. 'I'm very prone to boredom. I gotta go do something. Yeah. That's a fair statement. I'm not the most relaxed person in the world. My mind does not stop working all night.'
There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who...
The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended, he said. Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper tantrums are being called bipolar.
The men would all say that they had died,' Gilligan said. 'These were the most incorrigibly violent characters. They would all say that they themselves had died. They felt dead inside. They had no cap...
The justice system in the West has a lot of problems, Poe said, but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don’t have any rights when you’re ac...
That's an incredibly depressing thought, I said that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.
Remember that the crazy people are not always to be found on the outside. Sometimes the crazy people are deeply embedded on the inside. Not even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist has ever thoug...
Psychopaths don't change, she [Essi Viding] said. They don't learn from punishment. The best you can hope for is that they'll eventually get too old and lazy to be bothered to offend. And they can see...
One man was saying, ‘It cost me a new SUV for my wife,’ Andrew said. Another said, ‘It cost me a cruise to the Bahamas and a new kitchen.’ Everyone was laughing.
Let’s face it, my Deep Throat had said to me, nobody rules the world anymore. The markets rule the world. Maybe that’s why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth i...
In the middle sat Brad Blanton. He was a large man. His shirt, open to his chest, was yellow-white, like his hair. With his sunburned face, he looked like a red ball abandoned in dirty snow.
If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn’t know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).
I think he saw his checklist as something pure—innocent as only science can be—but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices and crazy predispositions. When
I suspect it was probably unusual to suffer from both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Malingering, unproductiveness tending to make me feel anxious, but there it was. I had both.
I suppose he was being rewarded so richly because his messages were inspirational. My talks tend to be more disincentivizing, which, I have noticed, pays less.
I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the em...
I closed the manual. I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders, I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.
He said I really had to be careful. Psychopaths are truly dangerous, he said. And they’re often the people you least expect them to be. When