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“In what may have been his only valuable remotely therapeutic insight ever, Dr. Apple once told me that I intellectualize things to depersonalize them. To make them less painful.”

“There’s a weird element of masochism to my anxiety. When I’m anxious, I find that I choose to keep engaging the very thoughts that are making me anxious—kind of like scratching poison ivy.” (268)

pg 217… ruined my life lowk.

wait im seeing parallels that i was never consulted about…

wait. he’s me fr (in a way…)