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Peters also explored borderline personality disorder. He pointed out that some of the symptoms (e.g., self-mutilation, anorexia) have parallels with shamanistic crisis experiences. The word “borderline” emphasizes the issue of boundaries. He suggested that the prevalence of the disorder today is partly due to lack of effective rites of passage. Our
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
I don’t see him, either within his own terms or within the psychiatric terms of the time, or today, as being in the least bit psychotic, or unhinged, or at any point on the verge of tipping over.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
Azy Barak, Michael Fenichel, John Grohol, Robert Hsiung, Storm King, Gary Stofle, and Kimberly Young,
John Suler • Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
Dorian Deshauer, a psychiatrist and historian at the University of Toronto, told me, “Once you abandon the idea of the personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.”
Rachel Aviv • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
The mind has an inherent negativity bias.
Melli O'Brien • Deep Resilience: A four-step journey to unshakable inner strength
symptoms occur sooner (and with greater intensity) in unstable individuals.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
Bipolar Disorder
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
Anxiety, depression, addiction and exhaustion are the new normal.