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"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
“AFTER ALL, ONE OF THE DEFINING elements of a traumatic experience—particularly one that is so traumatic that one dissociates because there is no other way to escape from it—is a complete loss of control and a sense of utter powerlessness. As a result, regaining control is an important aspect of coping with traumatic stress.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“To develop a self one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“When a baby gets hungry and cries his levels of stress hormones will move upward. But if Mom or Dad regularly comes to feed him, they go back down, and over time, they become patterned and repetitive thanks to the daily routine. At times, nonetheless, the baby will feel distress and cry: not hungry, not wet, not in discernible physical pain, she will appear inconsolable. When this happens most parents hug and rock their children, almost instinctively using rhythmic motion and affectionate touch to calm the child. Interestingly, the rate at which people rock their babies is about eighty beats per minute, the same as a normal resting adult heart rate. Faster and the baby will find the motion stimulating; slower and the child will tend to keep crying. To soothe our children we reattune them physically to the beat of the master timekeeper of life.”
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
― The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
“The thing about shame is that it eats at you until it fully consumes you. Then you cannot tell the difference between their shame and your own— between a body and an apology.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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