“There was not a single smoker in Europe before the sixteenth century, because until then there was no tobacco there. Very few women smoked until the twentieth century; now the habit is more popular among young women than among young men. To say that individual differences in smoking are half caused by genes is simply not true. It all depends on the environment in which the individual is living.”
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
“How we react to our friends as well as who we pick as a lover, our abilities and interests at work, in fact almost everything about our psychology as an adult is continually reflecting our childhood in our day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience.”
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
“psychiatrists who believe the illness is largely genetic find hard to explain: at least 20 per cent of schizophrenics completely recover, most of them able to live their lives without any drug treatment at all. A telling example of a recovered schizophrenic is Rufus May. Not only did he become wholly sane but, having done so, he trained as a clinical psychologist and now treats schizophrenics in a community project”
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
― They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life - Revised and Updated Edition
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