I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is ... GEORGE CROOK He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They... JULIAN BARNES When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY When ladies are between the ages of 19 and 24 years, lot of right men would come their way but just ... ALALE ANTHONY Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everythi... WILMA RUDOLPH You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of c... NEEL BURTON Our followers are like bees which live among birds. None of the birds recognize the bees because of ... HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le... ELIE WIESEL The Cat and the Birds
A cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself ... AESOP The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make thei... SHERMAN ALEXIE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rar... AMY LEACH is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are different kinds of birds and there are different situations and places to find these birds... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe... STEPHEN KING Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests;... WILLIAM BARTRAM If you don't compensate them, you are going to have a whole underground movement of birds away from ... MICHAEL FRY There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ... WILLIAM HAZLITT They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, th... JOHN OWEN Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the soc... SHERWIN B. NULAND There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their man... GYULA ILLYéS We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou... SIDNEY MADWED Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not f... KENT HALL The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arro... FAY WELDON I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Sometimes, too, when their spiritual masters, such as confessors and superiors, do not approve of th... SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It's been very frustrating to many private-sector businesses: They know there are people out there w... LOREN SCOTT Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with the... ANTHONY TROLLOPE Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true... 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JERRY FALWELL My recommendation is to just leave them alone. Let them settle for a while and they'll find their wa... BOB ERIKSEN Many people feed their birds but don't know exactly who is coming to their feeder. This is a good ti... JOAN HELLER As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such ... PAMELA ANDERSON I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status ... GEORGE SAND The birds aren't that far away; they will show back up. They are pretty mobile. Birds tend to move a... DAVE GRABER Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; an... DANA ROHRABACHER There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just ta... PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Most women go through life looking for love, and looking for someone to treat them like a queen. For... TAISEN DESHIMARU Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to ... MAGGIE JONES I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing abo... C. JOYBELL C. “QUALITY TIME is important, no matter how busy you are, u must find at least a particular time to ... MARICEL CONSOLACION They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its ne... ARISTOTLE They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its ... ARISTOTLE We get more and more consultations like this. Women are becoming more independent. When their husban... ATSUKO OKANO Concluding a short series on education: The devout student is the best of all students. There ar... WILLIAM BARCLAY What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo... CHRISTINA ENGELA What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo... CHRISTINA ENGELA The only thing secretive about secret societies is the fear that the arrogant inside these groups ha... ROBIN SACREDFIRE There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for the... JAMES BALDWIN Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I think it took them a while to hit their stride as far as jelling together. They are not the bigges... DWAYNE HULTQUIST Many of them are students who have families, who work full-time jobs, and need to know how they can ... ALLYSON WILSON All of those 10 species of birds showing symptoms live at the foot of the hill and they are very sen... BIAN HAIXIA The only thing secretive about secret societies is the fear that the arrogant inside these groups ha... ROBIN SACREDFIRE It seems to kill a very large proportion of the birds that it infects. That is having a major impact... DAVID NABARRO Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't ... MICHAEL ENDE We all live in hiding. In one way or another, each of us conceals pieces of ourselves from the rest ... MARY SHANNON They are young but they at least know how to play the game so you don't have to go over all those fu... JANICE GILLESPIE Dear men, I’ll make it clear to you. Those who tell you that ‘true love’ is never giving up so... AHIMSA MURFI men and women, both straight and gay, who don’t consider sexuality in measuring the worth of anoth... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN One of the reasons people and animals share such a close relationship is that people have always lea... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the ... JOHN BURROUGHS With abstraction, birds become numbers. Men and maniocs, too. We can look at a scene and say, ‘The... DANIEL TAMMET I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright... MORGAN FREEMAN Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulti... WENDELL BERRY There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's buildi... HENRY DAVID THOREAU He loves me so he hurts me To try and make me good. It doesn't work. I'm just too bad LAURIE MATTHEW All their lives they had slaved at some kind of dull, heavy labor, behind desks and counters, in the... NATHANAEL WEST I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve year... WILMA RUDOLPH The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the... BARUCH SPINOZA It's (usually) not until they go through the training that they get interested in something specific... ANNIE RANSOM Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ... JOHN STUART MILL Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the... ARNOLD BENNETT There has been a strong campaign to inform those who live on the edge of the park to tell them they ... IBRAHIMA DIOP This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as ... LYSANDER SPOONER We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat c... B. R. AMBEDKAR The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they a... SANAYA ROMAN Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Christ became ever ... A. J. GOSSIP ...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't un... TERRY GOODKIND Having said that the unliterary reader attends to the words too little to make anything like a full ... C.S. LEWIS Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are i... SHANNON L. ALDER Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. ... CRAIG THOMPSON
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