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| 5e7df12 | Osoznanie sobstvennoi slabosti meshaet raskryvat' v obshchenii vsiu glubinu svoei individual'nosti - v rezul'tate bol'shinstvo tekh, s kem ia podruzhilas' za poslednie vosem'-desiat' let, stali shapochnymi znakomymi. Ot etogo rastet chuvstvo odinochestva, i voobshche chuvstvuesh' sebia glupo. | депрессия psychology | Andrew Solomon | |
| 9836b02 | Let me bury here the rage I feel to have been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 30f44b4 | Mne ochen' trudno pomnit' khoroshee, kogda ia v depressii. Ia bez kontsa prokruchivaiu v pamiati vse plokhoe, chto mne delali - ia zlopamiatna, kak slon, - i kak ia perezhivala obidu, i styd, i nelovkost', i vse eto nakruchivaetsia i stanovitsia khuzhe, chem bylo na samom dele, eto tochno. | депрессия psychology | Andrew Solomon | |
| 9d0d451 | Esli ia reshu pokonchit' s soboi, psikhologicheski mne ne nado budet daleko khodit', potomu chto umom i serdtsem ia bolee gotov k etomu, chem k nezaplanirovannym povsednevnym perturbatsiiam, otmechaiushchim soboiu kazhdoe utro i kazhdyi polden'. | депрессия psychology suicide | Andrew Solomon | |
| 4bbc686 | Nichto ne uzhasaet menia sil'nee, chem mysl' o tom, chto kogda-nibud' ia utrachu sposobnost' sebia ubit'. | депрессия psychology suicide | Andrew Solomon | |
| c257c48 | At least half of the children available for adoption in the United States have disabilities of some kind. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 71808a2 | People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are over sixty-five... | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 84e5225 | present tense of mild depression envisages no alleviation because it feels like knowledge. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| c2c56fb | Sometimes, the hallucinations are visual and olfactory was well and make the world full of actual threats into a writhing hell of inescapable terrorization. Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in lonelineness beyond all reckoning... between 5 and 13 percent of people with schizophrenia commit suicide. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 9016b57 | In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f9c534d | At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 7411e08 | I was fascinated to hear of the suicide of an octopus, trained for the circus, that had been accustomed to do tricks for rewards of food. When the circus disbanded, the octopus was kept in a tank and no one paid any attention to his tricks. He gradually lost his color (octopuses' states of mind are expressed in their shifting hues) and finally went through his tricks a last time, failed to be rewarded, and used his beak to stab himself so b.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| ab58ea3 | About half of patients with pure anxiety disorders develop major depression within five years. Insofar as depression and anxiety are genetically determined, they share a single set of genes (which are tied to the genes for alcoholism). Depression exacerbated by anxiety has a much higher suicide rate than depression alone, and it is much harder to recover from. "If you're having several panic attacks every day," says Ballenger, "it's gonna b.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 0bec8e9 | With the wonder and bitterness of someone pardoned for a crime she did not commit I come back to marriage and friends, to pink fringed hollyhocks; come back to my desk, books, and chair. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f277d72 | All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 9289bf0 | the fibrous tongue is actually the strongest muscle per inch in the body; if it were the size of a biceps, you could pick up a car with it. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 96986ff | So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 92d2815 | The cochlear implant is really a holding mechanism for a larger debate about assimilation versus alienation, about the extent to which standardizing human populations is a laudable mark of progress and the extent to which it is a poorly white-washed eugenics. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| d2567af | It seemed to take the most colossal effort to do simple things. I remember bursting into tears because I had used up the cake of soap that was in the shower. I cried because one of the keys stuck for a second on my computer. I found everything excruciatingly difficult, and so, for example, the prospect of lifting the telephone receiver seemed to me like bench-pressing four hundred pounds. The reality that I had to put on not just one but tw.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 81ef481 | I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| c6b2d2a | We must look for faith (in anything: God or the self or other people or politics or beauty or just about anything else) and structure. We must help the disenfranchised whose suffering undermines so much of the world's joy--for the sake both of those huddled masses and of the privileged people who lack profound motivation in their own lives. We must practice the business of love, and we must teach it too. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| d30ff78 | It is mad for adolescents to rage at parents who have done their best, but it is a conventional madness, uniform enough so that we tolerate it relatively unquestioningly. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a84f45c | There is a Russian expression: if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. While life is not only about pain, the experience of pain, which is particular in its intensity, is one of the surest signs of the life force. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 4e48bc8 | I went to Cambodia to be humbled by the pain of others, and I was humbled down to the ground. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 3e1ef5e | Andrew Solomon, in his book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, traces the links between addiction and depression, which frequently co-occur, as well as the intimate relationship between depression and anxiety. He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as "fraternal twins": "Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination,.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a2495e0 | I had to know the stories these women had to tell," she explained, "because I wanted to understand very specifically what each one had to vanquish." | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1c3e1c4 | Thinking seems to me less persuasive evidence of being than does choosing. Not in our chemistry and not in circumstance does our humanity lie, but in our will to work with the technologies available to us through the era in which we live, through our own character, through our circumstances and age. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a63b021 | Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience, and this is the thing with feathers at the bottom of their box of miseries. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 8faf238 | In an important study done in 1979, researchers demonstrated that any form of therapy could be effective if certain criteria were met: that both the therapist and the patient were acting in good faith; that the client believed that the therapist understood the technique; and that the client liked and respected the therapist; and that the therapist had an ability to form understanding relationships. The experimenters chose English professors.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 214f12c | claiming | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a7e2afa | Aunque muchos de nosotros nos sentimos orgullosos de lo diferentes que somos de nuestros padres, nos entristece lo diferentes que nuestros hijos son de nosotros. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a179ce1 | floundered | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 418edc8 | There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow it for themselves or not. For those who love, there should be no shame in being exhausted--even in imagining another life. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 4cc6c9d | Unusual bodies have been described throughout history as reflections of sin, as omens from the gods, as the basis for laughter or charity or punishment. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 42e6086 | All kinds of attributes make one less able. Illiteracy and poverty are disabilities, and so are stupidity, obesity, and boringness. Extreme age and extreme youth are both disabilities. Faith is a disability insofar as it constrains you from self-interest; atheism is a disability inasmuch as it shields you from hope. One might see power as a disability, too, for the isolation in which it imprisons those who wield it. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 0b8eb66 | We are all differently abled from one another, and context--which is socially constructed--often decides what will be protected and indulged. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 6734f2d | No one has ever suggested legal protections for ugly people to make up for the misaligned features that will compromise their personal and professional lives. For people disabled by inherent moral perplexity, we offer not support but imprisonment. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 5cce5f4 | not that I'd even been thinking about Cinzia until the moment before, but it had all seemed so solid, so immutable, the whole social system of the building, a nexus where I could always stop in and see people, say hello, find out what was going on. People who had known my mother. People who had known my dad. And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world t.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| c0b8d30 | I need actual X-Ultra vests, not schematics and spec sheets." "More than one?" "A statistically significant sample would be best. Like a hundred." "Why so many?" "Target practice." Her eyes widened. "Let me make sure I have this straight. You want to blow holes in one hundred bulletproof army vests." "That's correct." "Where do you plan to do that?" He looked at her. "I'll ask Norm," Kenzie said. "If it's not too much trouble. What if he te.. | Janet Dailey | ||
| f8a85ea | Curbing the financial sector. Since so much of the increase in inequality is associated with the excesses of the financial sector, it is a natural place to begin a reform program. Dodd-Frank is a start, but only a start. Here are six further reforms that are urgent: (a) Curb excessive risk taking and the too-big-to-fail and too-interconnected-to-fail financial institutions; they're a lethal combination that has led to the repeated bailouts .. | Joseph E. Stiglitz | ||
| 11208ca | It did not take long for the entire town of Beldingsville to learn that the great New York doctor had said Pollyanna Whittier would never walk again; and certainly never before had the town been so stirred. Everybody knew by sight now the piquant little freckled face that had always a smile of greeting; and almost everybody knew of the "game" that Pollyanna was playing. To think that now never again would that smiling face be seen on their .. | Eleanor H. Porter | ||
| 2d3afa3 | It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. --SCHILLER | Donna Tartt | ||
| 91d71bb | From Smith's principle that labor is the true measure of price--or, as Warren phrased it, that cost is the proper limit of price--these three men (Josiah Warren, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx) made the following deductions: that the natural wage of labor is its product; that this wage, or product, is the only just source of income (leaving out, of course, gift, inheritance, etc.); that all who derive income from any other source abst.. | economics labor ownership property socialism | Frank H Brooks | |
| 701b1f2 | There are days when I go to church just for the chance to maybe see her smile at me. | Frank Warren |