Sublime

Self-esteem cannot be relied on when it is contingent on being a ‘success’.

Low mood increases any self-criticism or self-attack that we already do.

We are all subject to reactions that researchers call the “halo effect.”

They speculated that a high level of linguistic ability in early life may act as a buffer to cognitive decline by facilitating mnemonic processes for encoding, organizing, and retrieving information.

Profound fears of loss and separation, the difficulty in adequately modulating intense emotions of elation, irritability, and the aggressive and sadistic impulses, coupled with discrete deficits in visual-motor integration (in the area of attention and executive memory and in the capacity to decode social cues accurately), have placed significant

the phrase “able to” is used repeatedly to describe a student’s performance.