“Here's the thing about miscarriage. They are painful, they are horrific, and they are very, very common. There are no funerals for Those Who Might Have Been, leaving parents to mourn their loss in strange and unexpected ways. But while a miscarriage may feel like the end of the world... it's actually just the beginning of a new one.”
― Saga, Volume 8
― Saga, Volume 8
“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?”
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“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.”
― Niadela
― Niadela
“He pasado cinco años en estado larvario y sé que esta noche da comienzo una nueva etapa de mi vida. (...) Ya lo siento en la nuca, doblegándome la cabeza, pero esta vez no voy a huir. Voy a dejar de ser larva para convertirme en ninfa. La forma adulta la perseguiré toda la vida.”
― Niadela
― Niadela
“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.”
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
― Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
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