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There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden. – Robert Whitaker	added by JokerGem 11 months ago
Do you know what a delusion is? It's a false belief sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary. – Mr. Monk	added by milly_b 1 year ago
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
I thought to myself, what planet are you living on that this 12 or 13-year-old girl love and respects the man in prison for murder that you're planning to marry? i don't buy it. I think it's part of the delusion. – Sheila Isenberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I was suffering, I knew that was real. Now that things are good, I'm afraid that I may only be suffering from delusion. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 2 years ago
Mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own, that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. Our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out. – Nicholas Wade	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a lot of talk in liberal corners about how Republicans should tell their base who still believe that the election was rigged, that they need to grow up and move on and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass delusion, and, of course, it is a mass delusion, but the inconvenient truth here is, if you accord religious faith the kind of exhaled respect we do here in America, you've already lost the argument that massdelusion is bad. – Bill Maher	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by Normando 3 years ago
As a caregiver, I think one of the challenges is recognizing that we can not use the same skills and interpersonal dynamics that we came to rely on in our relationship with the person with LBD, we have to develop new ones because you can not reason with somebody who is having a hallucination or delusion. Sometimes you have to more step into their reality and empathize( and) learn a new way to offer assistance without them feeling like they're being treated like a child. – Angela Taylor	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. – Charles Bukowski	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
A genuine faith that is based on actual reality helps in empowering you and makes you more confident. On the other hand, when you, yourself, have not experienced the real truth and have built your faith based on a superficial fact, you are exploited by the delusion of that fact. This way, you are not only misinterpreting the reality but is also keeping yourself bounded in a false faith. A superficial fact will keep you trapped in an artificial reality. Thereby you should develop your confidence through faith and belief, which is based on your experience and not just an obscure superficial fact. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 3 years ago
Rudy Giuliani's a great person who loves our country and Rudy Giuliani does this out of love, believe me. Rudy Giuliani does it out of love. Rudy Giuliani sees what goes on. Rudy Giuliani sees what's happening. Rudy Giuliani sees all of the hoax that happens when they talk about impeachment hoax or the Russian collusion delusion and Rudy Giuliani sees it. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
After three years of lies, smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead the collusion delusion is over. – The Russia probe Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
After three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead. The collusion delusion is over, the Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans – many of them, they suffered – with an elaborate hoax. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The collusion delusion is over. The special counsel completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction. Coulda told you that two and a half years ago very easily. – President Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion – H.W. Mann	added by howardmann 5 years ago
I would rather have accuracy and clarity than dwell in self-delusion. – Jeff Davidson	added by anonymous 5 years ago
Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief system by turning it out into negative one which makes your self-image blur so you feel low and dull to perform anything bigger, somehow it kills the fruits of all your efforts unexpectedly, it has an ability to blow your flame of passion..... there are a lot of sources you will find around, stay away from anyone who makes you confuse, anything, person, ideology or belief any source that makes you feel like that, stay away from it, leave it and live your real life.” – Mohsin Ali Shaukat	added by anonymous 6 years ago
What is it exactly that's going to happen this time that didn't happen at any point in the past 15 years? it seems patently absurd to me to be contemplating this. The circularity, the perpetual motion of that delusion is extraordinary. – David Michôd	Found on CNN 6 years ago
We've moved into FEED with a belief that we'll get the project across the line. But we're also under no delusion that there's some more work to do. – Chief Executive Peter Coleman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think Mr. Holmes' actions on July 20 were the direct result of his mental illness, it all boils down to whether you believe he had a delusion or not. – Jeffrey Metzner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Confusion is like a delusion, it's like a dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true believe system by turning it out into negative one which make your self image blur so you feel low and dull to perform anything bigger, somehow it kills the fruits of all your efforts unexpectedly, it has ability to blow your flame of passion..... there are a lot of sources you ll find around, stay away from anyone who make you confuse, anything, person, ideology or believe any source that make you feel like that, stay away from it, leave it and live your real life.” – Mohsin Ali Shaukat	added by anonymous 8 years ago
It was not about notoriety. It was not about hatred. It was about the delusion, you give the word, and this ends with a life sentence. – Tamara Brady	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

– Robert Whitaker

added by JokerGem
11 months ago

Do you know what a delusion is? It's a false belief sustained despite clear evidence to the contrary.

– Mr. Monk

added by milly_b
1 year ago

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

– Ambrose Bierce

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

I thought to myself, what planet are you living on that this 12 or 13-year-old girl love and respects the man in prison for murder that you're planning to marry? i don't buy it. I think it's part of the delusion.

– Sheila Isenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I was suffering, I knew that was real. Now that things are good, I'm afraid that I may only be suffering from delusion.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

Mainstream media, newspapers and television networks, they just bought into that story without doing any serious digging of their own, that is why we have been in this sort of delusion for more than a year. Our media has let us down by failing to investigate a very flimsy story that these two groups of virologists put out.

– Nicholas Wade

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a lot of talk in liberal corners about how Republicans should tell their base who still believe that the election was rigged, that they need to grow up and move on and stop asking the rest of us to respect their mass delusion, and, of course, it is a mass delusion, but the inconvenient truth here is, if you accord religious faith the kind of exhaled respect we do here in America, you've already lost the argument that massdelusion is bad.

– Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

added by Normando
3 years ago

As a caregiver, I think one of the challenges is recognizing that we can not use the same skills and interpersonal dynamics that we came to rely on in our relationship with the person with LBD, we have to develop new ones because you can not reason with somebody who is having a hallucination or delusion. Sometimes you have to more step into their reality and empathize( and) learn a new way to offer assistance without them feeling like they're being treated like a child.

– Angela Taylor

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

– Charles Bukowski

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

A genuine faith that is based on actual reality helps in empowering you and makes you more confident. On the other hand, when you, yourself, have not experienced the real truth and have built your faith based on a superficial fact, you are exploited by the delusion of that fact. This way, you are not only misinterpreting the reality but is also keeping yourself bounded in a false faith. A superficial fact will keep you trapped in an artificial reality. Thereby you should develop your confidence through faith and belief, which is based on your experience and not just an obscure superficial fact.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
3 years ago

Rudy Giuliani's a great person who loves our country and Rudy Giuliani does this out of love, believe me. Rudy Giuliani does it out of love. Rudy Giuliani sees what goes on. Rudy Giuliani sees what's happening. Rudy Giuliani sees all of the hoax that happens when they talk about impeachment hoax or the Russian collusion delusion and Rudy Giuliani sees it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

on modern man, modernity, and technotyranny, I say this:-hooked on technology. can't discern myth from reality, loses his identity, yearns for a state of ideality. one thing he knows, is that no matter how older he grows, he sees this as just a delusion- he has no solution, that's why there is so much confusion.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

After three years of lies, smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead the collusion delusion is over.

– The Russia probe Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

After three years of lies and smears and slander, the Russia hoax is finally dead. The collusion delusion is over, the Russia witch hunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent Americans – many of them, they suffered – with an elaborate hoax.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The collusion delusion is over. The special counsel completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction. Coulda told you that two and a half years ago very easily.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion

– H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
5 years ago

I would rather have accuracy and clarity than dwell in self-delusion.

– Jeff Davidson

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief system by turning it out into negative one which makes your self-image blur so you feel low and dull to perform anything bigger, somehow it kills the fruits of all your efforts unexpectedly, it has an ability to blow your flame of passion..... there are a lot of sources you will find around, stay away from anyone who makes you confuse, anything, person, ideology or belief any source that makes you feel like that, stay away from it, leave it and live your real life.”

– Mohsin Ali Shaukat

added by anonymous
6 years ago

What is it exactly that's going to happen this time that didn't happen at any point in the past 15 years? it seems patently absurd to me to be contemplating this. The circularity, the perpetual motion of that delusion is extraordinary.

– David Michôd

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We've moved into FEED with a belief that we'll get the project across the line. But we're also under no delusion that there's some more work to do.

– Chief Executive Peter Coleman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think Mr. Holmes' actions on July 20 were the direct result of his mental illness, it all boils down to whether you believe he had a delusion or not.

– Jeffrey Metzner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Confusion is like a delusion, it's like a dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true believe system by turning it out into negative one which make your self image blur so you feel low and dull to perform anything bigger, somehow it kills the fruits of all your efforts unexpectedly, it has ability to blow your flame of passion..... there are a lot of sources you ll find around, stay away from anyone who make you confuse, anything, person, ideology or believe any source that make you feel like that, stay away from it, leave it and live your real life.”

– Mohsin Ali Shaukat

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It was not about notoriety. It was not about hatred. It was about the delusion, you give the word, and this ends with a life sentence.

– Tamara Brady

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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