“The shamans are interesting because they exhibit many of the dissociative features of the MPD patient. They differ from the MPD patient in that the shamans were healthy and use their dissociation in a culturally integrated way. The MPD patient tends to be dysfunctional and socially isolated.”
Source: Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality
“Adversity only makes us stronger.
Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow stronger.”
“There will be those who hate you for no reason, just because you are who you are, therefore, they will hate everything you’re speaking on.
-MillYentei”
“Sweet Lucy,” he hums in my ear as he holds me tighter. “You’re already on your way to falling in love with me. Better yet, you’re already in too deep. And you know it just as well as I do.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“The scarcity mindset in dating often goes hand in hand with the sunk cost fallacy. The sunk cost fallacy says that it is bad to lose something we have invested time, money, energy or emotions into, regardless of whether that something is still actually doing anything for you. Humans are highly risk averse creatures, so we tend to prefer NOT losing something over potentially gaining something, even if we don't like what we would lose.”
Source: Building Open Relationships: Your hands on guide to swinging, polyamory, and beyond!
“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.”
Source: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century
“In this chapter I focused on the dopamine-driven reward system and its role in delivering life's goodies. But there's a mirror-image brain network, often called the loss avoidance system, whose job it is to call our attention to risk. If the reward network chases shiny fruit, the loss avoidance system worries about bad apples.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“She takes a cautious approach to toasting bread. She does it by degrees, nervous of burning it. But the trouble is, by popping it up and down five times to check on its progress, she provides herself with plenty of opportunities to forget about the toast entirely and burn it to a crisp. Her cautious approach to toasting, I fancy, actually has the unintended consequence of making it more likely she'll burn her breakfast. Is there a life lesson in this, I wonder?”
Source: The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple
“We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.”
Source: Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception