September 2009
6 posts
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have...”
– Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (via psychotherapy)
August 2009
24 posts
http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/post/12115434... →
slaughterhouse90210:
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can’t describe myself I can’t ask for help.” —...
Hell yeah →
slaughterhouse90210:
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” —Hillary Clinton, Living History
I've seen much worse, but the quote is AMAZING! →
slaughterhouse90210:
“She was pretty, but she’d spent too much time in the sun. She was pruned over and nearly maroon, like a turkey beard.”
—Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Imaginary Friends: how TV programs can fend off... →
psychotherapy:
New psychological research suggests that loneliness can be alleviated by simply turning on your favorite TV show. In the same way that a snack can satiate hunger in lieu of a meal, it seems that watching favorite TV shows can provide the experience of belonging without a true interpersonal interaction.
For decades, psychologists have been interested in understanding how...
July 2009
33 posts
“Nowadays when I feel happiness it’s tempered with realism; nowadays when I feel...”
– Emily Gould, Vision of Love (via autostraddle)
“I know the use of fiction in a world of hard truth, the way fiction can be a...”
– Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (via autostraddle)
“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and...”
– Snoopy (via danitza)
“Happiness is anyone and anything that is loved by you.”
– Charlie Brown (via danitza)
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (via danitza)
“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via psychotherapy)
So precise, so divine →
slaughterhouse90210:
“I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don’t feel a part of that world, and I wouldn’t know how to join if I tried.” — Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
re: DFW and the last post
psychotherapy:
A few people have wondered where the David Foster Wallace text that I posted last night was excerpted from. Well, in case you haven’t already gone and figured it out, it comes from his now semi-legendary commencement speech at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005, a speech to match any address Vonnegut has ever given, in terms of intelligence, wisdom, humor, and humanity.
You can read...
David Foster Wallace explains, essentially, the...
psychotherapy:
“The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default...
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via psychotherapy)
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via psychotherapy)
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and...”
– Erich Fromm (via psychotherapy)
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anais Nin (via psychotherapy)
“Everything great that we know has come to us from neurotics. They alone have...”
– Marcel Proust (via psychotherapy)
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
– Rollo May (via psychotherapy)
