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Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.
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Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
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To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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