Sublime

Denial abounds, especially, it seems, on the part of the fathers, who may feel the need to minimize the severity of the problem.

Michael Pollan in his first-person account, How to Change Your Mind.

“The Long Arm of Childhood Trauma,”

But I worry that we have both oversanitized and overpathologized childhood, raising our children in the equivalent of a padded cell, with no way to injure themselves but also no means to ready themselves for the world.

self-binding openly recognizes the limitations of will.

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Maria had developed the Lying Habit. What started out as a way to cover up her mother’s drinking and her father’s absence, and eventually her own addiction, turned into lying for its own sake.

Anna Fels. “Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?” The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014).