En los momentos más terribles de la vida solemos caer en una suerte de irresponsabilidad protectora y en vez de pensar en lo que nos ocurre dirigimos la atención a trivialidades.
The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers...
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.
Though sometimes, first love cauterises the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.
a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.
As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.
The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of t...
Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age,...
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in a...
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.
Where would we be without our painful childhoods?