“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
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“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.”
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“Being in a state of denial is a
universally human response to
situations which threaten to
overwhelm. People who were abused
as children sometimes carry their
denial like precious cargo without a
port of destination. It enabled us to
survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.”
― Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
universally human response to
situations which threaten to
overwhelm. People who were abused
as children sometimes carry their
denial like precious cargo without a
port of destination. It enabled us to
survive our childhood experiences, and often we still live in survival mode decades beyond the actual abuse. We protect ourselves to excess because we learned abruptly and painfully that no one else would.”
― Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
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