“Step 7: Still maintain a supportive attitude Q: Still? We still need to pay attention to this thing's feelings and respond to its questions and care about its ideas? Yes. Q: Why? Because that's what it needs. Q: Why, though? Because it is a person. And people need somebody who cares about them. Q: It's a person? Yes. Everybody is a person.” HealingCompassionAcceptanceSelf LoveDepression Book:Solutions and Other Problems Source: Solutions and Other Problems
“When the vast majority of your interactions with somebody have been brutally critical--warlike, even--and you also personally caused almost all the bad things that ever happened to them, it may take a while before they don't feel spooked by your presence.” FriendshipLonelinessSelf LoveMental Health Book:Solutions and Other Problems Source: Solutions and Other Problems