“The reason a lot of people describe therapy as self-indulgent, unnecessary, narcissistic, masturbatory, etc. - and thereby avoid going - is that therapy is a challenge to the way you think, the way you behave, and the choices you’ve made in your life. Which can be unpleasant. I got sort of an inkling of this when I read Freud for the first time; in “The Interpretation of Dreams,” he says (and this is a huge paraphrase) that analysis can never take the form that the patient wants it to take, because the patient has been determining the form that his or her life has taken thus far, and that hasn’t worked out. Basically, everything you think about the way you think is suspect. Now, I have a lot of issues with Freud, but one thing I do believe in and respect is realizing that you’ve fucked up, and that it may be because you are fucked up, and undertaking the commitment to examining and picking apart each and every factor of how you’ve fucked up, with an eye to changing it.”
—Tiger Beatdown: So am I the only person who thinks therapy is kind of a load of crap? (via wannablessedbe) (via pandorasmittens) (via robot-heart) (via psychotherapy)
June 2009
Reblog with something completely unrelated to the current events right now.
i’m seeing a movie in fifteen minutes.(via onthewing)
I have 13 tabs of porn open right now. That’s really all I could think of.
that’s a lot of porn
i’m listening to the maine’s cover of pour some sugar on me on repeat and his voice is turning me on ngl
i fucking hate sendspace
i just cooked my parents and ate them.
“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
—Dorothy Parker
“Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think every thing you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via fuckyeahpalahniuk) (via witwicky)
Charles de Gaulle said, “The cemetaries of the world are full of indispensable men” - one of my father’s very favorite quotations, and mine as well. It’s consolation, of a sort: everybody tries, no one wins, everybody dies.
Propertius said, “Among the dead are thousands of beautiful women.”
Juvenal: “Weigh the dust of Alexander the Great and the village drunkard, and they’ll weigh the same.”
Schopenhauer: “We are all lambs led to slaughter.”
At 51, Tchaikovsky said: “I am aging fast, I am tired of life, I thirst for quietness and a rest from all these vanities, emotions, disappointments, etc. etc. It is natural for an old man to think of a prospective dirty hole called a grave.”
Freud said, “What lives, wants to die again. Originating in dust, it wants to be dust again. Not only the life-drive is in them, but the death-drive as well.”
In 44 B.C., Cicero said, “No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year”; he died in 43. B.C. On his deathbed, William Saroyan said, “Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.” Edward Young wrote, “All men think all men mortal but themselves.” The ancient Indian epic Mahabharata asks, “Of all the world’s wonders, which is the most wonderful? That no man, though he sees others dying all around him, believes that he himself will die.”
- David Shields, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
A sad thing for an insomniac to say
- My mother: Sometimes your face is so beautiful and bright but sometimes you look so tired and beat down
- Me: Like right now?
- My mother: Yeah... why have you been like that lately?
- Me: Because I have no reason to be awake anymore
“Toward the end of the eighth grade, a friend from church ratted on me. […] As mad as I said I was at the time, I had never been so grateful for anything in my life. I was called into the counselor’s office. As I sat there, staring over her shoulder out the window, I was not ashamed. I was not even afraid. I was flattered. And, God help me, I was proud. Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I’d been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I was getting good at this, good enough to scare people.”
—WASTED . marya hornbacher (via uberhaupt)
New Hampshire the 6th State to Legalize Marriage →
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The law will take effect in January, exactly two years after the state legalized civil unions. New Hampshire joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa in recognizing same-sex marriages, though opponents hope to overturn Maine’s law with a public vote.
Obsessed (A&E) →
aetv.com
Just TiVo’d the series. I’m looking forward to watching.Not sure how many of you are watching this series (the first episode aired last week on A&E, and is available for free online at the link above), but it sounds like something worth watching. Anything that puts a bigger spotlight on OCD (or mental disorders, in general) is a good thing in my book.
Here’s a description of the show, from their official website:
Intense and highly personal, A&E’s true-life docuseries Obsessed examines the lives of everyday people impris- oned by unmanageable, repetitive behaviors and sometimes debilitating fear. Whether it is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, General Anxiety Disorder, Hoarding or a variety of phobias, the unscripted series gives viewers a chance to see first-hand how an obsession can radically affect a person’s life.
The show airs Monday nights at 10pm. Tonight’s episode will apparently be focusing on “Pure O”. If any one is watching the series and has an opinion either way, I’d love to hear it in the comments…
“My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
—
Kanye West
Best thing anybody has said ever. Holy shit.
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my greatest pain in life is that i will never really be able to have sex with me. gotta spread the wealth, i guess.
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Reblog if you're procrastinating.
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