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“Before, when he lived with his parents, even though he’d had his own room, it hadn’t felt like home either. He’d still contorted himself—only those had been psychic contortions. The kind that made you smaller and smaller until you threatened to disappear if you didn’t get out. So he had.”
― Best Laid Plans
― Best Laid Plans
“got to watch Lars’s wide, stunned eyes as Amaya brought æbleskiver to the party. Round cakes made of pancake dough covered in powdered sugar, they were set on the dessert table with a big pot of strawberry jam, a traditional Danish holiday food.”
― All That Has Flown Beyond
― All That Has Flown Beyond
“Some people came out of trauma with thick scar tissue. They could handle anything. They had been through the worst and could take any kind of hit because they knew they could survive. On the other hand, there were people like me, who survived but with thinner skin than before. Some of us ended up wrapped in an organ even more delicate than tissue paper, with bodies and spirits buoyed only by our will to keep going. And coping mechanisms. And therapy.”
― All Rhodes Lead Here
― All Rhodes Lead Here
“I mean…yeah, okay? Yeah. But that’s the thing. I still don’t feel…yeah, all of that has changed, but I still feel like, just…hollow. Like nothingness.” “Sucks, huh?” Claudia said. Kaiyo stared at her incredulously. “Kaiyo, I’m sorry, but that’s how this path goes. It’s not an indication that therapy or the medication or the things that you are doing are not working. This is literally how it works.” Kaiyo scrunched up his nose, but Claudia went on. “At this point, we are still stuck in a Catch-22. See, we feel like crap, so we see the world as crap. We see the world as crap, so we feel like crap. We feel like crap, so…well, you get it. So, how the world actually looks is irrelevant at this point. The actual facts aren’t large enough, and your perspective hasn’t cleared enough, to cause a noticeable difference to the cycle of negative thoughts, negative emotions we are stuck in right now.” Kaiyo slumped a little in his seat, but Claudia”
― All That Has Flown Beyond
― All That Has Flown Beyond
“That’s a horrible voice to live with, Kaiyo. I understand that. It’s hard not to listen to it. But it is another distortion of depression. At a fundamental level, we have to remember that, yes, depression is a consistent low mood, but its impact is mainly a distortion of perspective. It is a legitimate mental health difficulty. This means that your brain, mind, and body are not functioning in a healthy way. “What this means is that any information processed by your brain right now is going to be corrupted. We need to debug the system slowly. We can’t trust what it puts out. So, when it tells you the antivirus isn’t working, it means nothing.” Kaiyo furrowed his brows thoughtfully, chewing at his lip. Claudia continued. “This makes it incredibly hard to track progress if you only use what the malware—excuse me if I’m taking this metaphor too far—is corrupting. And what it is corrupting right now is ‘emotional perspectives on world and self’. You feel like nothing has changed. You feel like you’re useless. You feel like this is going to go on forever.”
― All That Has Flown Beyond
― All That Has Flown Beyond
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