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“What caused people distress was not so much their own mistakes, inadequacies and illnesses as the powers and influences that bore down upon them from the world beyond their skin.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“But in the end the first step has to be taken in fear and trembling, with no guarantee that there will be a positive outcome.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“There can be few people who are not familiar with the state of depression. As with anxiety, it is probably when we can't see the reasons for it that it turns from a painful and unpleasant experience into a malign and threatening form of misery.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“We all of us feel that we have things inside us that would make us unlovable if only people knew.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy