“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
― Dying Bites
― Dying Bites
“Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.”
― The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
― The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...”
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
― There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
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