Sublime

At the heart of mental illness is a loss of control over our own better thoughts and feelings.

Don’t add to first impressions. It’s difficult not to do something of course, once we have it in our mind. And in the same way we like to repeatedly press the button to call the lift when we’re in a hurry, as if doing so will summon it any more quickly, we find it hard to sit back quietly if something is playing on our minds. So instead, we can acc

By far the most important predictor of how well his subjects coped with life’s inevitable disappointments was the level of security established with their primary caregiver during the first two years of life.

A well-functioning mind recognizes the futility and cruelty of constantly finding fault with its own nature.

The fact is, we all have distressing stories about our own incompetence that play through our minds

illness. They both attempted suicide as teenagers, endured at least one depressive episode in midlife, and suffered a very severe depressive episode in their final years, before they were killed.

Pathological (e.g. delusional projection) ii. Immature (e.g. passive aggression) iii. Neurotic (e.g. hypochondriasis) iv. Mature (e.g. humour / altruism).