Sam Sax - Madness

APPENDIX C OF THE DSM - I (1952) SUPPLEMENTARY TERMS OF THE BODY AS A WHOLE ( INCLUDING SUPPLEMENT ARY TERMS OF THE PSY CHE AND OF THE BODY GENERALLY) AND THOSE NOT AFFECTING A PART ICULAR SYSTEM EXCLUS IVELY order / disorder Acarophobia Acrophobia Agoraphobia Antisocialism Anxiety Asthenia Breath holding Bruxism Cachexia Cancerophobia Causalgia Claustrophobia Cheiromegaly (enlargement of hands and fingers) Chills Chilly sensations Collapse Counting (steps, etc . ) Cruelty Deficiency, moral Dehydration Delire de toucher Depersonalization Depression Destructiveness Diabetes insipidus Dipsomania Disobedience Edema, hysterical Edema, other types Emotional instability Enuresis Erotomania Facetiousness Fatigue, abnormal Fears, mixed Feeding problem in children Folie du doute Forgery Fugue Gain in weight Homosexuality Hypothermia Kleptomania Loss in weight Mania Masturbation Mendacity pathologic: untruthfulness Misanthropy Misogyny Moria (Witzelsucht) Mysophobia Nail biting Negativism Nymphomania Obesity Overactivity Pain, general Panic Panic, acute homosexual Paranoid trends Paroxysmal automatism Paroxysmal clouded states Paroxysmal furor Paroxysmal psychic equivalents Personality, dual Personality, dissociated Personality, paranoid Personality, schizoid Personality, syntonic Phthisiophobia Pyrexia; hyperthermia Pyromania; setting fires Quarrelsomeness Sexual immaturity Sex offenses Sexual perversion Shock Simulation, malingering Somnambulism Somniloquism Stealing Syncope Syphilophobia Tantrums Tetany Tetany due to hyperventilation Thumb sucking Tongue swallowing Trance Trichokryptomania Trichotillomania Truancy Urge to say words Use of alcohol Use of drugs Vagabondage Vagrancy SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER lets begin with the fields that line the road my people fled down trailed by soldiers bullets at their heels o if those fields could speak surely theyd stay silent the human coffle of the barefooted in winter feet torn to rags by the graveled ice id like to believe that spring grew nothing along the highway that the flowers werent devastating in their beauty but dont blame biology for following its own logic the professors hand on my neck that caused me to harden in my leather the angel lust of hanged men erections toward heaven in america, you cant trust the flowers they bloom despite themselves they blood open then fall PSYCHOTHERAPY after Adlia Prado i invent three nightmares for my therapist to decipher. in the second my father digs a hole in our backyard, i lie facedown in the rain, for a moment im mud covered, then an island, then a city swallowed by flood. in the last + this is the most transparent, im a pane of glass all the boys in my class press their lips against before heading to war. i want my therapist to know, im the war + the glass + the hole + the boiled. i want him to stab at whats bleeding just below the surface. to reach down my throat + release me from inside the locked safe. i want to look at myself in the mirror without swallowing all my fathers heart medicine. i want to look at myself in the mirror without swallowing all my fathers heart medicine.