“Embrace who you are and never comply with the standards of the society.”
“Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages eighteen to twenty-five, there was an increase of 49 percent. For adults over the age of twenty-five, the rate of depression supposedly stayed stable.”
Source: Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
“I already have my bathroom time scheduled, so you’ll have to work around it. Please note the bathroom is unavailable for the hour before each of my scheduled usage times (I don’t like to feel as if someone has just been in there when I have to go). However, for your convenience, there is also a toilet available with minimal wait time on the first floor lobby if you have an emergency and need immediate use.”
Source: Dirty Pirate
“When we judge and condemn children for the place they were born, we destroy our own humanity and leave the world with no hope.”
“I’d become friendly with Tom Courtenay on Doctor Zhivago. He was an English actor, based in London, and didn’t want the hassle of navigating Paris alone. To make things simple, he moved in with Omar Sharif and me in the Avenue Foch apartment provided by the production. With angular features and a conventionally English look, Tom was young, sensitive, and an avid supporter of Hull City football club. While shooting in Paris, he would dart back to England whenever he could to see them play. Once, upon returning to Paris, he discovered assorted pubic hairs in his bedsheets—telltale evidence that one of Omar’s sleepovers had made use of his room. Tom was enraged. He confronted Omar, and their relationship almost didn’t survive. Never in all my life have I seen someone so angry.”
Source: Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
“2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“I must give myself permission not to like myself. It's ok. Plenty of other people don't like me either. And I have much higher standards.”
“Shame evokes anxiety about what will happen if someone really knows is, but, because it is impossible to for anxiety and anger to be felt simultaneously, we can dream our anxiety by employing anger or rage in the form of contempt... Contempt, because it feels more powerful has always helped us feel safer and more powerful than the anxiety we feel when we experience shame. [3]”
Source: Growing a Passionate Heart
“I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,
"Can't they tell? "
—Nita, September 18, 1984”
Source: Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Contempt
The contempt I feel for others—for myself different, less internal than guilt.
It’s not that I think (or have ever thought) I was bad—through and through. I think I’m unattractive, unloveable, because I’m incomplete. It’s not what I am that’s wrong, it’s that I’m not more (responsive, alive, generous, considerate, original, sensitive, brave etc.).
My profoundest experience is of indifference, rather than censure.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980