I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the presen...
I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for me the traumas of the past are mercifully far away. The pleasures of the past however...
Present tense of mild depression envisages no alleviation because it feels like knowledge.
There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance,...
Безрадостно чувствовать в себе порчу: ощущать, как в тебе чуть ли не каждый день образуются новые вмятины; знать, что превращаешься в нечто хилое, бессильное; понимать, что значительную часть тебя уне...
Unusual bodies have been described throughout history as reflections of sin, as omens from the gods, as the basis for laughter or charity or punishment.
Returning from distress by gradual degrees gives sense to affliction itself.
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married t...
It. Block out the terrible thoughts that invade your mind. I
The Internet, [Judy] Singer said, is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it. For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in...
People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclin...
People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are ove...
In an important study done in 1979, researchers demonstrated that any form of therapy could be effective if certain criteria were met: that both the therapist and the patient were acting in good faith...
Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also inf...
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me....
The trauma of Down's syndrome is that it is present prenatally and can therefore undermine the early stages of bonding. The challenge of autism is that it sets in or is detected in the toddler years,...
Realitatea faptului că trebuia să îmi pun nu una, ci DOUĂ șosete, și apoi DOI pantofi mă copleșea, și voiam să mă întorc în pat.