#orders

I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably, from years of starvation. I think: That could have been [me]. It wasn’t. It’s not. ↗

— Harriet Brown

#eating-disorders #family #mental-illness #family

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

The reason I don't Kill Myself is because I know I can. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#mental-disorders #mental-health #suicide #suicide-attempt #mental-health

The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#christian-philosophy #distinctions #intellectual-life #philosophy #religion

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#disorders #eating #i #illness #mental

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him. ↗

— Dick Armey

#against #any #attack #behaves #borders

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#recorders #replaced #tape #virtually

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#among #borders #divide #fact #great

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#america #direct #give #obeyed #orders

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#control #desires #direction #give #islam