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“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it.
Imagine being terribly ill and too afraid to tell anyone lest it destroys your career.
Imagine being admitted to hospital because you are too ill to function and being too ashamed to tell anyone, because it is a psychiatric hospital.
Imagine telling someone that you have recently been discharged and watching them turn away, in embarrassment or disgust or fear.
Comparisons are odious. Stigmatising an illness is more odious still.”
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Imagine being terribly ill and too afraid to tell anyone lest it destroys your career.
Imagine being admitted to hospital because you are too ill to function and being too ashamed to tell anyone, because it is a psychiatric hospital.
Imagine telling someone that you have recently been discharged and watching them turn away, in embarrassment or disgust or fear.
Comparisons are odious. Stigmatising an illness is more odious still.”
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.”
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The Poor as Folk Bookclub
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— last activity Aug 04, 2019 05:29PM
This will be a place to read together and discuss books, both fiction and non-fiction, that deal mainly with poverty and income inequality as the them ...more
Debby’s 2025 Year in Books
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