Sebastiaan De Jong

“Many of us live, if not alone, then in emotionally inadequate relationships that do not recognize or honour our deepest needs. Isolation and stress affect many who may believe their lives are quite satisfactory. How”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No

“Loneliness has been similarly associated with diminished immune activity in a group of psychiatric inpatients.”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No

“Racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others.”
― Carl Hart, High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

“The oft-observed relationship between stress, impaired immunity and illness has given rise to the concept of “diseases of adaptation,” a phrase of Hans Selye’s. The flight-or-fight response, it is argued, was indispensable in an era when early human beings had to confront a natural world of predators and other dangers. In civilized society, however, the flight-fight reaction is triggered in situations where it is neither necessary nor helpful, since we no longer face the same mortal threats to existence. The body’s physiological stress mechanisms are often triggered inappropriately, leading to disease. There”
― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No