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If you know someone is watching you all the time, doesn’t that make you a little uneasy? Being observed by anybody—including your own Self—can make a person so self-conscious that it would be hard to do anything right.

Psychologists often speak of the ability to establish trust as one of the hallmarks of the mature person.

“imagination is more important than knowledge”
—Albert Einstein

I remember, at a discussion-group meeting, a man made a statement and a little later, he said the exact opposite. Another man pointed this out to him, accusing him of being inconsistent. And he replied, “So? Where is it written that a human being must be consistent?”

Your chest feels like an elephant is sitting on it. You can't breathe, or else you breathe too much

You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does. _ Sejanus

" Why the Hunger Games? Why not just drop bombs, or cancel food shipments, or stage executions on the steps of the district Justice Buildings? "

The therapists (θεραπευτές) did not keep the king out of the battle; they kept him safe in the midst of battle and were trusted advisors who supported the king as he sought to make good choices. They did not make the choices for him. This is the embodiment of the good therapist.

“you’ve got to feel to heal.” This reminds us to maintain the person within the therapeutic window : neither too aroused nor too dissociated.

I now routinely have my clients complete the Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) at the completion of their therapy

I believe the adage stating that good therapists are good storytellers. Good therapists also help their patients to tell their own stories.

the degree of dissociation, as an adaptation, can be predicted by the level of threat that is being brought to the person’s system of attachment