Sublime

ruth

When we carry an excess of self-disgust around with us, operating just below the radar of conscious awareness, we constantly seek confirmation from the wider world that we really are the worthless people we take ourselves to be. The expectation is almost always set in childhood, where someone close to us is likely to have left us feeling dirty and

Obsessive-compulsions may take root as the detached person seeks comfort in superstition in order to gain a feeling of control over their environment. “If I click my teeth together in the correct spot exactly four times when I put on my pants, nothing bad will happen to me.”