Kaelah’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

“what am I not saying no to?”
When did I “sense a ‘no’ within me that wanted to be expressed, but I stifled it, conveying a ‘yes’ (or a silence) where a ‘no’ wanted to be heard?”

“Your personality is not you; you are not your personality.”
“The personality is an adaptation.”
Excuse me while I rethink my whole life.

Finally getting to solutions

Why is this matching up with current events so much. Really had me taking a pause for the cause

And now calling Canada out on their racism

Calling America OUT on our racism

Sorry not sorry for the hot take but social determinants of health have way more to do with American’s health than food dyes

Loneliness is “compared to the harm of smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.”
Sending out an SOS to the North

Had to take a break from JP because his own depressive catastrophization was too much of a bias. This last chapter feels like GM is doing the same, his own catastrophization is getting in the way of his really good ideas (imo)

Robin Williams rip 💔