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“My mother’s grief was primitive and all-encompassing: it sucked the oxygen out of the air,” Gornick wrote in that memoir.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
himself. Suicide often leaves the survivors with an unsolved mystery: Why? What could have been done to prevent this? Meanwhile, Samantha was always looking for problems in her relationships, searching for issues that would inevitably provide her with a reason
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
rumination is a key factor in maintaining depression
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
cognitive problem-solving is more effective than emotion-focused approaches in reducing feelings of powerlessness and depression?
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
So if there is a symptom, the message is that there is usually some experience that caused or is contributing to it.
Francine Shapiro • Getting Past Your Past
"Male depression is nearly always a result of learned helplessness, but health providers treat it like female depression and try to make men feel loved instead of powerful."
– Adam Lane Smith, on male depression and the loss of agency
When I began my research, I discovered “two kinds” of HSPs. Some reported difficulty with depression and anxiety; some reported very little of these feelings. The separateness of the two groups was quite clear. Later, I discovered that the depressed and anxious HSPs almost all had troubled childhoods. Non-HSPs with troubled childhoods do not show
... See moreElaine N. Aron • The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Surivive and Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
These are women who were confident and clear as college seniors—they scored at the high end of psychological tests of autonomy and self-esteem. All of the five women who remained Pathmakers from college to late midlife had attended a state university, with most working to contribute to their education. While they all seemed to enjoy talking to me
... See moreRuthellen Josselson • Paths to Fulfillment: Women's Search for Meaning and Identity
