“Because I have no interest in death, I feel that death should have no interest in me.”
Source: De hel en andere bestemmingen: Memoires 2001-2019
“Understanding the starvation protection response helps eating disorders patients understand why restrictive dieting doesn't work.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Everyone knows that the environments we created to satisfy our wishes for sweets, salt, fat and leisure have resulted in epidemics of chronic disease. Obesity and eating disorders are prime examples, but alcoholism and drug addiction are also made possible by ready access to substances and means of administration that have only recently become available. Lack of selection until recent times against these often fatal disorders is an essential part of any evolutionary explanation.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Dividing human differences into distinct illnesses is like dividing up the color spectrum into distinct colors. While most of us can easily tell the difference between yellow and orange, we probably can't agree on exactly where yellow ends and orange begins because there is no single point at which one becomes the other. Similarly, the border between health and sickness is the judgment call we make about whether a person's symptoms are impairing their lives and warrant treatment.”
Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“Escóndeme en tus brazos
por esta noche sola,
mientras la lluvia rompe
contra el mar y la tierra
su boca innumerable.”
“But she looked well and healthy and full of beans.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“Kin selection shapes tendences to make sacrifices that benefit family members who share genes identical by descent. The costs of such sacrifices are highest and most satisfying for children and siblings, but problems experienced by extended family members can nonetheless cause great distress.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“An extraordinary proportion of life problems and resulting mental disorders arise from mating conflicts. Unrequited love, the pain of being rejected, the fear of being left, being stalked, being harassed, jealousy and being trapped in an abusive relationship are common precipitants of mental disorders.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“...social media now seem poised to harm our mental health as much as fast food harms our physical health. We can't resist its pull despite the anxiety, depression and feelings of social inadequacy that are aroused by unprecedented social comparisons.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Moderation is the key to sustainable health.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo