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The Pessimist’s Guide to Mental Illness
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To reflect on what our lives should have been like is no meaningless escape from a horrid reality. It constitutes a bid to repair some of our damage through a process of positive contrast.
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We’re so afraid of patronising ourselves, we can find it hard to accept the bewildering way in which, in certain areas, we truly can be slammed back into being a frightened, panicky, perspective-less young version of ourselves.
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If couples follow this simple three stage rule, there will still be arguments at points — but love will survive and, as each person understand the other’s vulnerabilities ever better, deepen and grow.
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We are not unwell as a result of some obscure biological quirk. We’re ailing because we didn’t learn certain things when we might have done.
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It is in the nature of most traumas that we will never — sadly — entirely get over them. But we can learn to sidestep their worst effects — and aim to infuse our remaining years with creativity and freedom.
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For many of us with troubled childhoods marked by trauma and distress, one of the major theoretical problems of adult life is: should we forgive our parents for the past — or not?
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We are sometimes puzzled by how frequently we find ourselves in love with people we know are not going to be good for us, but who mirror the disturbing patterns of our attachments from early childhood.
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