#health

Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders personality disorders, psychotic thinking, and a host of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse. In my view, DID is simply an extreme version of the dissociative structure of the psyche that characterizes us all. ↗

— Elizabeth F. Howell

#child-abuse #chronic-trauma #depression #development #dissociation

You can't resent another person for not giving you what you didn't ask for. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#life #relationships #life

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. ↗

— John Lewis Lund

#healthy #relationships #right #toxic #wrong

Love lets us ride on its back as if it were a camel. But you’ve got to water it, or it won’t grow into a healthy rose bush. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#health #healthy #love #nonsense #ride

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. ↗

— A.J. Jacobs

#healthy #love

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness. ↗

— Jerry L. Ainsworth

#happiness #healing #health #love #love

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #love #spiritual-health #love

Ben shrugged his shoulders. "I find that people who have good luck in their lives tend to have good luck medically." Perhaps there is truth in this. ↗

— Sally Ryder Brady

#marriage

Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#science #men

I became skilled at covering my tracks, filling in the blanks. Sometimes the blanks were never filled. At other times, I would recall places where I had been or things I had done as if from a dream, which made the playback of my father and other men abusing me seem I even less real, fantasies conjured up from my imagination I not my memory. Perhaps somebody else’s memory. I didn’t think of myself as having mental-health problems. You don’t at sixteen. I thought of myself as being special, highly strung, moody. ↗

— Alice Jamieson

#amnesia #dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-identity-disorder #incest