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helps to laugh, even when you don’t feel like laughing. You can’t be sad when you’re laughing. Mostly.”
“It’s not that people want to get hurt again. It’s that they want to master a situation in which they felt helpless as children. Freud called this “repetition compulsion.” Maybe this time, the unconscious imagines, I can go back and heal that wound from long ago by engaging with somebody familiar—but new. The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“You can’t be sad when you’re laughing. Mostly.”
― Under the Whispering Door
― Under the Whispering Door
“Some would call this gaslighting, others would call it gaslighting—it’s gaslighting.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Cognitive dissonance, psychologists call it, this ability to hold two contradictory ideas or beliefs at one time.”
― Flat Broke with Two Goats
― Flat Broke with Two Goats
“While women feel cultural pressure to keep up their physical appearance, men feel that pressure to keep up their emotional appearance.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Ezeekat's Book Club
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