Self-Knowledge
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01.What is Mental Health?
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02.The One Question You Need to Ask to Know Whether You're a Good Person
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03.Eight Rules of The School of Life
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04.No One Cares
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05.The High Price We Pay for Our Fear of Being Alone
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06.5 Signs of Emotional Immaturity
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07.On Knowing Who One Is
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08.Why Self-Analysis Works
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09.Knowing Things Intellectually vs. Knowing Them Emotionally
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10.The Novel We Really Need To Read Next
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11.Is Free Will or Determinism Correct?
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12.Emotional Identity
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13.Self-Knowledge Questionnaire
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14.Know Yourself
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15.Self-Knowledge Quiz
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16.On Being Very Normal
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17.Living Long-Term with Mental Illness
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18.The Role of Sleep in Mental Health
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19.The Role of Pills in Mental Health
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20.Mental Illness and Acceptance
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21.Mental Illness and 'Reasons to Live'
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22.Taming a Pitiless Inner Critic
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23.Reasons to Give Up on Human Beings
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24.The Window of Tolerance
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25.On Realising One Might Be an Introvert
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26.Our Right to be Miserable
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27.How to Manage One's Moods
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28.On Living in a More Light-Hearted Way
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29.On Disliking Oneself
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30.Of Course We Mess Up!
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31.Learning to Listen to One's Own Boredom
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32.On Depression
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33.In Praise of the Melancholy Child
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34.Why We May Be Angry Rather Than Sad
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35.On Not Being in the Moment
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36.'Pure' OCD - and Intrusive Thoughts
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37.Twenty Moods
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38.How the Right Words Help Us to Feel the Right Things
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39.The Secret Optimism of Angry People
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40.On Feeling Depressed
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41.The Difficulty of Being in the Present
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42.On Being Out of Touch with One's Feelings
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43.Our Secret Thoughts
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44.The Psychology of Colour
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45.On Self-Pity
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46.On Irritability
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47.On Anger
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48.On the Things that Make Adults Cry
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49.Detachment
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50.Straightforward vs. Complicated People
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51.Reasons to Give Up on Perfection
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52.The Need for a Cry
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53.On Confinement
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54.The Importance of Singing Badly
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55.You Don't Need Permission
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56.On Feeling Stuck
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57.Am I Paranoid?
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58.Learning to Be More Selfish
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59.Learning How to Be Angry
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60.Why We're All Liars
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61.Are You a Masochist?
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62.How Badly Adapted We Are to Life on Earth
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63.How We Prefer to Act Rather Than Think
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64.How to Live More Wisely Around Our Phones
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65.On Dreaming
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66.On the Remarkable Need to Speak
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67.Thinking Too Much; and Thinking Too Little
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68.On Nagging
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69.The Prevention of Suicide
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70.On Getting an Early Night
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71.Why We Eat Too Much
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72.On Taking Drugs
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73.On Perfectionism
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74.On Procrastination
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75.A More Spontaneous Life
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76.On Self-Assertion
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77.The Benefit of Analogies
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78.Why We Need Moments of Mad Thinking
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79.The Task of Turning Vague Thoughts into More Precise Ones
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80.How to Catch Your Own Thoughts
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81.Why Our Best Thoughts Come To Us in the Shower
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82.Calm
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83.Confidence
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84.Why We Should Try to Become Better Narcissists
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85.Why We Require Poor Memories To Survive
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86.The Importance of Confession
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87.How Emotionally Healthy Are You?
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88.What Is An Emotionally Healthy Childhood?
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89.Unprocessed Emotion
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90.How to Be a Genius
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91.On Resilience
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92.How to Decide
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93.Why It Should Be Glamorous to Change Your Mind
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94.How to Make More of Our Memories
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95.What’s Wrong with Needy People
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96.Emotional Education: An Introduction
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97.Philosophical Meditation
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98.Honesty
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99.Self-Love
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100.Emotional Scepticism
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101.Politeness
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102.Charity
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103.Charm
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104.Love-as-Generosity
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105.Comforting
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106.Emotional Translation
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107.Humour
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108.On Pessimism
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109.The Problem with Cynicism
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110.On Keeping Going
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111.Closeness
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112.On Higher Consciousness
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113.On Exercising the Mind
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114.Authentic Work
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115.The Sorrows of Work
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116.Cultural Consolation
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117.Appreciation
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118.Cheerful Despair
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119.'Let Him Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone'
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120.The Roots of Loneliness
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121.Small Acts of Liberation
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122.Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional
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123.The Fear of Happiness
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124.The Truth May Already Be Inside Us
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125.What Is the Meaning of Life?
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126.The Desire to Write
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127.Are Intelligent People More Lonely?
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128.A Better Word than Happiness: Eudaimonia
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129.The Meaning of Life
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130.Our Secret Fantasies
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131.Why We’re Fated to Be Lonely (But That’s OK)
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132.Good Enough is Good Enough
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133.An Updated Ten Commandments
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134.A Self-Compassion Exercise
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135.How to Become a Better Person
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136.On Resolutions
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137.On Final Things
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138.On Falling Mentally Ill
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139.Splitting Humanity into Saints and Sinners
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140.Becoming Free
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141.Learning to Listen to the Adult Inside Us
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142.The Ultimate Test of Emotional Maturity
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143.Can People Change?
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144.When Home is Not Home...
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145.Learning to Lay Down Boundaries
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146.You Could Finally Leave School!
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147.When Do You Know You Are Emotionally Mature? 26 Suggestions
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148.How to Lengthen Your Life
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149.We Only Learn If We Repeat
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150.The Drive to Keep Growing Emotionally
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151.On Bittersweet Memories
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152.Small Triumphs of the Mentally Unwell
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153.Why We Should All Think of Ourselves as Sinners
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154.The Importance of Atonement
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155.How To Be a Mummy's Boy
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156.On Consolation
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157.The Inner Idiot
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158.The Dangers of the Good Child
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159.Why None of Us are Really 'Sinners'
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160.How We Need to Keep Growing Up
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161.On Being Cheered Along
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162.Are Humans Still Evolving?
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163.On Losers – and Tragic Heroes
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164.On the Serious Role of Stuffed Animals
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165.Why Self-Help Books Matter
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166.The Role of Love in Mental Health
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167.Trauma and Fearfulness
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168.On Despair and the Imagination
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169.On Being Able to Defend Oneself
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170.The Fear of Death
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171.I Am Not My Body
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172.The Problems of Being Very Beautiful
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173.6 Reasons Not to Worry What the Neighbours Think
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174.Am I Fat? An Answer from History
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175.The Problem of Shame
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176.On Feeling Ugly
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177.The Particular Beauty of Unhappy-Looking People
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178.How Not to Become a Conspiracy Theorist
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179.The Terror of a ‘No’
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180.On Being Hated
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181.The Origins of Everyday Nastiness
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182.The Weakness of Strength Theory
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183.On Self-Sabotage
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184.FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out
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185.On a Sense of Sinfulness
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186.Two Reasons Why People End up Parenting Badly
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187.What is Emotional Neglect?
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188.How Unloving Parents can Generate Self-Hating Children
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189.How Mental Illness Closes Down Our Minds
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190.Trauma and EMDR Therapy
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191.How to Fight off Your Inner Critic
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192.The One Subject You Really Need to Study: Your Own Childhood
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193.Sharing Our Early Wounds
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194.Trauma and How to Overcome It
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195.Why We're All Messed Up By Our Childhoods
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196.The Golden Child Syndrome
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197.The Importance of Being an Unhappy Teenager
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198.How We Get Damaged by Emotional Neglect
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199.The Secrets of a Privileged Childhood
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200.What We Owe to the People Who Loved Us in Childhood
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201.Criticism When You've Had a Bad Childhood
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202.On Suffering in Silence
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203.How a Messed up Childhood Affects You in Adulthood
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204.Daddy Issues
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205.The Non-Rewritable Disc: the Fateful Impact of Childhood
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206.On the Longing for Maternal Tenderness
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207.The Melancholy Charm of Lonely Travelling Places
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208.Nostalgia for Religion
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209.Parties and Melancholy
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210.Why Very Beautiful Scenes Can Make Us So Melancholy
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211.On Old Photos of Oneself
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212.Are Intelligent People More Melancholic?
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213.Strangers and Melancholy
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214.On Post-Coital Melancholy
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215.Sex and Melancholy
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216.Astronomy and Melancholy
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217.Nostalgia for the Womb
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218.Melancholy and the Feeling of Being Superfluous
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219.Pills & Melancholy
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220.Melancholy: the best kind of Despair
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221.On Melancholy