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...
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...
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us...
Defective is an adjective that has long been deemed too freighted for liberal discourse, but the medical terms that have supplanted it—illness, syndrome, condition—can be almost equally pejorative in...
Let me bury here the rage I feel to have been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved.
Prozac doesn’t do it unless we help it along. Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and...
In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.
No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he...
The social perception of whether any supposed deficit is the parents' fault is always a critical factor in the experience of both children and parents. The attribution of responsibility to parents is...
When I had the third breakdown, the mini-breakdown, I was in the late stages of writing this book. Since I could not cope with communication of any kind during that period, I put an auto-response mess...
You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
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...
Mă simt tot timpul ca și cum fiecare ar vrea o bucățică din mine.
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
It seemed to take the most colossal effort to do simple things. I remember bursting into tears because I had used up the cake of soap that was in the shower. I cried because one of the keys stuck for...
There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow i...
I’ll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept their child. They’re two separate things, the parental loss, and the actual...
Осознание собственной слабости мешает раскрывать в общении всю глубину своей индивидуальности - в результате большинство тех, с кем я подружилась за последние восемь-десять лет, стали шапочными знаком...
Without self-discovery, Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.
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