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“Moments happen or don’t happen, people’s lives are altered and sometimes destroyed by them, and what can one say? What can one do? Apparently nothing.”
― Anéantir
― Anéantir
“I see no value in my having been depressed…It is a dreadful scourge that has caused me terrible pain…it is a disease no question of that and one, which like all the others, demands to be understood and relieved. Yes, of course I have learned who my true friends are and who can stay by me in my worst times….it does help to know that there are others and that slowly people…are beginning to learn something about it. But it has been around an awfully long time, a lot of people are suffering and it is about bloody time we took it seriously.”
― Depression and How to Survive It
― Depression and How to Survive It
“The answer is not to make more humans. Once you believe this whole thing is ultimately pointless, it is ridiculous to generate more adversity-facing meaning seekers.”
― Conversations about the Meaning of Life
― Conversations about the Meaning of Life
“Then there are humans. We activate the stress-response if being chased by a predator. But, critically, we can activate that same response if we merely think we’re about to be knocked out of balance—we have an anticipatory stress-response. If it is justified, that is a great thing. But if there is no actual physical stressor impending, and we do that regularly, we have entered the realm of anxiety, neurosis, hostility, and paranoia. Zebras do not worry about global warming, but we do. We activate the identical stress-response as do zebras and lions, but we can do so because of chronic psychological stress. And if that occurs often enough, our disease risk increases, because that is not what the stress-response evolved for.”
― Stress and Your Body
― Stress and Your Body
“Basically he didn’t object to the destruction of the sperm bank. The idea of buying sperm and more generally of launching oneself into a reproductive project that didn’t even have the excuse of sexual desire or love … even struck him as frankly revolting.”
― Anéantir
― Anéantir
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