Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
IRVIN D. YALOMTo the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.
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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I’m still learning.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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