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“Ahí estaba de nuevo, frente a Niadela; nos contemplábamos la una a la otra, como la primera noche, dos construcciones abandonadas.”
Beatriz Montañez, Niadela

“Vivimos en un mundo macroscópico, donde la seña identitaria de la humanidad es el ruido. Yo he elegido vivir una vida microscópica, donde la seña identitaria sea el silencio.”
Beatriz Montañez, Niadela

Júlia Peró
“Luego la chica, estúpidamente candida y con una sola palabra, desplegó mi vejez sobre la mesa. Como un mantel de cuadritos rojos y blancos, la vejez. Hay palabras inocentes y otras que te arrugan la piel con su pesantez.

-Olvido, ¿estás... está usted bien? ¿Quiere que llame a alguien?

Con tan poco, con una sola palabra, «usted», me despertó del ensimismamiento. Hay palabras que te esconden y otras que te entregan. Las palabras son como una extremidad del cuerpo. Pueden agarrarte o darte un golpe o acariciarte. Y la chica con las suyas me sometió a la senectud sin pensárselo.”
Júlia Peró, Olor a hormiga

“If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional well-being will be an inevitable result. Materialism was therefore an unhelpful response to various deprivations. A culturally endorsed coping mechanism that ultimately backfired.”
James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

“I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness”. While it is true, i continued, that people in deprived situations are likely to suffer a great deal more than those who are more affluent, on what grounds are we correct to use medical language to describe that suffering? Do we use it because we have simply been taught to use it or because we have objective that it is somehow better to medicalise such suffering than it is to view it as many social scientists might as non-medical, non-pathological yet understandable human response to harmful social, relational, political and environmental conditions?”
James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis

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