*triggering*
Posted on July 04, 2012 (♥ 1)
+ fourth of july + update + bulimia + purge + binge + tired + college + therapy + disappointment
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I wonder which is preferable – to walk around all your life swollen up with your secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word for them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin – everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone – and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?
— Margaret Atwood
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If we permit ourselves to screen out of “bracket” the everyday concerns of life, we inevitably arrive at the deep structures of existence…death, isolation, meaning of life, and freedom
— Irvin D. Yalom, Gift of Therapy
Posted on April 29, 2012 (♥ 6)
+ Irvin Yalom + therapy + concerns + existence + existential + death + isolation + meaning + freedom
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That’s the problem with reality, that’s the fallacy of therapy: It assumes that you will have a series of revelations, or even just one little one, and that these various truths will come to you and will change your life completely. It assumes that insight alone is a transformative force. But the truth is, it doesn’t work that way. In real life, every day you might come to some new conclusion about yourself and about the reasoning behind your behavior, and you can tell yourself that this knowledge will make all the difference. But in all likelihood, you’re going to keep on doing the same old things. You’ll still be the same person. You’ll still cling to your destructive, debilitating habits because you emotional tie to them is so strong that the stupid things you are really the only things you’ve got that keep you centered and connected. They are the only things about you that you you.
— ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Posted on April 28, 2012 (♥ 7)
+ Elizabeth Wurtzel + Prozac Nation + therapy + fallacy + revelation + destructive + cling + change + tranformation
