The reward feels good, and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward. With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just
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“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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