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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

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Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.
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Always Creep Experience Helplessness Indeed Morality Reality
He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
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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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Back Bereavement Found Gone Impressive Number Old Rather Simply Study Widow Windower
Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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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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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Absorbed Become Forgotten Ourselves Outside Someone Something
…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Anything Away Better never Nothing Offer Take
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.
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