May 2012
245 posts
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“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in...”
– Lemony Snicket
April 2012
410 posts
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“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set...”
– Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)
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“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground,...”
– Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons)
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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (The Bean Trees)
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“Pain is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance...”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don’t really...”
– Anthony De Mello
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“Endorphins are natural opiates which have a very similar effect to heroin on...”
– Bulimia and Endorphin’s Effect on the Brain
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“There is some empirical evidence to suggest that individuals with eating...”
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“Bruch linked the sense of loneliness, the feeling of not being listened to or...”
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“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a...”
– -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“If we permit ourselves to screen out of “bracket” the everyday...”
– Irvin D. Yalom, Gift of Therapy
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“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to...”
– -David N. Elkins, Beyond Religion, p. 124
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“Our actions can never be divorced from the state of mind from which they spring....”
– Guide to Buddhist Meditation
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Existential Crisis in Gifted Sensitive Adults →
fuckyeahintellectualgiftedness:
Existential Depression is often little more than a footnote in most writings and research on depression. It’s not exactly a “household concept” since it generally doesn’t affect many people, except in a very fleeting and vague manner. However, it is extremely prevalent among highly gifted sensitive adults. It’s pervasive, non-specific, numbing and immobolizing—...
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“If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you...”
– ― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
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“People with bulimia appear to have much lower than average levels of serotonin...”
– Serotonin’s Effect on the Brain
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“There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Gifted adults can misinterpret their complex and deep way of thinking as...”
– Giftedness in Adults
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“Persons with bulimia often relate that they experience these features of...”
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“The patient never stops telling us about their reality in the language of their...”
– Alice Miller
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“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but...”
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark
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“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
