Sublime

Good psychotherapists

He’s seen a lot of melancholic depressives in his time. He knows how to assess the risk of suicide, which he considered to be very high in my case, and I myself realize on rereading these pages that I can find no words to adequately convey the “intolerable moral suffering” mentioned in my medical report.

brains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.

She is one who has committed herself to exploring terrains little spoken of in our culture and mapping them for others to see.

work hard to stay connected to his body and build healthy routines.

We all long, at some point, for a profound awakening. We travel with the expectation that the places we see and the encounters we have will transform us. We go to theaters and museums and holy sites in the hope of discovering something that will have a new and permanent resonance in our lives. It’s a human hunger. We want transformative things and

I find the photographs cheering, reminders of my patients not as patients, but as people, of their lives beyond what I recorded in their medical charts.

bathos

Learning to develop compassion for oneself is crucial for Ones who live in their bodies as a prison of unattainable perfection, a place of perpetual disappointment as a result of their unrealistic expectations.