Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, Never real and always true, and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolute...
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...
Если я решу покончить с собой, психологически мне не надо будет далеко ходить, потому что умом и сердцем я более готов к этому, чем к незапланированным повседневным пертурбациям, отмечающим собою кажд...
These are astonishingly early processes. The
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now y...
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.
The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I've met through this. It's who I am.
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
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...
To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. When it comes, it degrades one's self a...
If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemica...
The cumulative results of the brain’s chemical effects are not well understood. In the 1989 edition of the standard Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, for example, one finds this helpful formula: a...
Its wideness:
There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the edge and others manage to stay sometimes sad in a safe clearing far from the cliffs. Once you cr...
When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.
Thinking seems to me less persuasive evidence of being than does choosing. Not in our chemistry and not in circumstance does our humanity lie, but in our will to work with the technologies available t...
The danger is that being pushed towards early specialisation can leave children believing that they have only one way to succeed...Prodigies who don't make it will have worked insanely hard on somethi...
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