Thoughts I‘ve picked up

“Everyone has a story, it just needs to be listened to by someone who tries to understand. If it happens, you don’t feel lonely”

“My Grandfather used to say that the real problem is what you don’t know that you don’t know”

“I think I realised that most conflicts aren’t real conflicts. They’re either because of misunderstanding, or because of some momentary mental state”

“It isn’t something specific about her. It’s how do I deal with her being her?”

“It would be nice to be paid to be me”

“If I died, and they would miss me, who is that me they would miss?”

“Sometimes thought are hurting me as if I had no skin. And when I feel I am being understood, it’s like the skin is back”

“Talking to him is like playing a piano that has only one key. Whatever I say, he hears one thing”

“You know, for me, therapy’s been a real ghostbastard”

“I feel as if inside my depression there is a little child hiding that needs to cry out in sadness and anger”

“When you’re a 12 year old boy, the most important thing to get from your father is to have someone to speak with about feelings”

“Sometimes insomnia is a way to have space and time only for yourself”

“I am a wheel that goes out of sync with the world wheel”

“His high intelligence doesn’t help him grow. In fact, he is using it to prevent him from growing”

“Living with that girl is like living in an emotional cage. Whatever I feel is wrong”

“My thoughts have been going in circles recently. But now I realise that my whole life has been going in circles for a frighteningly long time”

“Last week I realised that life can go on with me and without me, and I want it to go with me”

“For years, my big dilemma has been, life or life Style”

Q: “How would you like to be seen by others”? A: “Maybe I need other others”. Q: “So how would you like to be seen by them?” A: “Okay let’s go back to the first others”

“Starting, struggling through, and finishing something. The best anti-anxiety pill I’ve had”

“The Depression Experience is that of an inner clock being continuously destroyed”

„Any sufficiently difficult psychological problem results in the person feeling lonely“

“We fear till we’re told it’s okay to be courageous and we follow till somebody tells us it’s okay to lead”

“I don’t understand the term ‘The meaning of life’. What is “the meaning of life”? For me, what’s been working lately was to have something that needs me and that’s more important than myself”

“Becoming mentally healthier meant to me that things became more simple”

“I sometimes think that the original fear of death isn’t that of our own’s but of our parents’s. The fear that we will be left alone”

“Panic has been for me like a traffic light that marks a turn or a junction”

“Parents are expected-to. Children expect. If it’s the oposite, it means trouble”

”My conflict in the last years has been the need to excel versus the need to be me”

“My mom’s life is designed around being the victime”

“Before therapy, I have been living in a world in which it was very easy to make mistakes, and they were very consequential”

Q: “How often are you being worried?” A: “What do you mean?” Q: “ How much mind time do your worries take?” A: “Oh, they completely drain my CPU”

"It was when I first got introduced to my husband’s family, when I realised: Hey here’s this great package of emotional stuff, it’s huge, and I am going to carry it from now on”

“You don’t get out of a profession just because it’s badly paid, and you don’t get out of life just because parts of it have been badly lived”

„I don’t deserve my Past and I do deserve my future“

„Damaged people damage. Undamaged people live without fear that they could damage, because they can’t damage. And we are soewhere in the middle, so we’ve just got to be a bit careful“