February 2012
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Sin So Dirty | SEXYDEATH — The Funeral Reserve...
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"What science cannot explain and technology cannot...
My circle of friends fast grow impatient, and their stories, though steadily progressing as is their wont, shine the spotlight on someone whose show is long overdue… a struggling magician fresh from the roaring twenties, to be exact. She’s been on the sidelines for far too long — nearly three years by my count — and these passing moments spent in quiet contemplation of their individual...
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“Remember that the word psychiatry means ‘healing the soul’, not ‘medicating the...”
– Elio Frattaroli
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a god and the only...”
– Paul Kemp, “The Rum Diary” (1998 novel by Hunter S. Thompson)
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“I can see a hundred people a day
who have given up
entirely.”
– Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski
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“I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those...”
– Margon Sperver, “The Wolf Gift” (2012 novel by Anne Rice)
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Never real and always true: on depression and... →
psychotherapy:
Writer James Bradley’s wonderful essay on the links, both real and mythologized, between mental health and creativity. A highly recommended read.
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“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
– Haruki Murakami
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“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and...”
– Reuben Golding, “The Wolf Gift” (2012 novel by Anne Rice)
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Nature vs. Torture
May 19th, 2008. That was the appointed day, and nearly every day thereafter… exercises in masochism, prolongations of the inevitable, living existing under that doom that I know will one day come to pass. That shadow looms over me as intimately as a lover would, constantly entwined. I’ve said it many times before in my confessions, and I’ll say it again; I’m acutely aware of the fact that...
Why We Hide Emotional Pain (Leon F. Seltzer,... →
psychotherapy:
Excerpt (via Psychology Today):
“Not to show vulnerability is typically viewed as a strength, a “demonstration” of character. But in reality the major motives in hiding our emotions are (as I’ve already indicated) fear-based. We’re just afraid to look weak or susceptible to others. Paradoxically, though, unashamedly disclosing our vulnerability can actually be a deliberate...
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II-XVII-MMXII
Strange. That’s the first word that comes to mind as I reflect upon how I burnt the candle at both ends last night. What was supposed to be another night of self-absorption turned out to be something quite different, entertaining an elderly car accident victim and sharing my music with him. Maybe that sounds nice… maybe that paints a pleasant portrait of a young man who can put his own interests...
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