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When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Faye Resnick said that Nicole tried desperately, but she was never able to gain control of her life. This is the saddest thing, on par with the sadness of her death. A woman who was never really able to live her own life — she was seduced by a charismatic narcissist at age 17, and everything thenceforth was part of him. She told Resnick, “I was... See more
𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒸𝒶 🌪🥩🍸💸 • O.J. SimpStack
In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
In controversial experiments, now simply known as the Milgram Experiments, named for the psychologist Stanley Milgram, researchers told “normal” people that they were to punish other volunteers for breaking various rules. And punish them they did, sometimes escalating the punishment to the point of physical abuse. Almost none of the punishers
... See moreMark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
