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Patient stated that she felt like a burden to loved ones" - much later, when I read the notes from the emergency room, I did not have any recollection of the conversation. 'A burden to loved ones': this language must have been provided to me. I would never use the phrase in my thinking or writing. But my resistance has little to do with avoiding a platitude. To say a burden is to grant oneself weight in other people's lives: to call them loved ones is to fake one's ability to love. One does not always want to subject oneself to self-interrogation imposed by a cliché.
Yiyun Li (Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life)
Godly grief readily confesses. After seeing your sin, and sorrowing over your sin, the worst thing you can do is to try stuffing your sin, hoping nobody ever finds out who you really are. Turns out, the best way to avoid being found out a fake is just not to be one—to be open with people about your struggles, while being equally as open in your praise of God for what He’s making of you, despite your many messes and problems. This is where the church comes in so beautifully, because it gets us around people who can help us carry the nagging issues of our hearts—people to whom we can confess our battles with sin and confess our need for a Savior—while we’re doing the same for them. When the only person that truly knows all about us is the person who uses our hairbrush, we are easy pickings for the Enemy, ripe for being outmaneuvered and outsmarted. That’s how we remain slaves to our repeated failures, by basically resisting the redeeming love of God and the needed, encouraging support of others. Because even if we’re as much as 99 percent known (or much less, as is more often the case) to our spouse, our friends, our family, and the people around us, we are still not fully known. We’re still hiding out. We’re still covering up. We don’t want them to know everything. But true sorrow over sin begs to be vented—both vertically to God and horizontally to others. So mark this down: You have no shot at experiencing real change in life if you’re habitually protecting your image, hyping your spiritual brand, and putting out the vibe that you’re a lot more unfazed by temptation than the reality you know and live would suggest. Even Satan himself cannot succeed at clobbering you with condemnation when the stuff he’s accusing you of doing is the same stuff you’ve been honestly admitting before God and others and trusting the Lord for His help with. That’s some of the best action you can take against the sin in your life. That’s responsible repentance.
Matt Chandler (Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change)
We are also predisposed to believe stories, especially when they have an emotional theme. Perhaps this is a result of our evolution. Let’s say your friend tells you to avoid the valley over the ridge because a large lion is hunting there. We probably descended from those who chose to believe their friend and not those who decided to go to the valley and check it out for themselves. In other words, selective pressures may favor accepting stories as probably true as a default.
Steven Novella (The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake)
Everywhere I landed, I didn't really feel like I belonged. Doing postgrad stuff, I felt like I didn't have any skills. Just felt unaccomplished. I was just there to ride out the downturn, and I felt like everybody knew it. Then there's the shame of unemployment. because I wasn't really unemployed. There were plenty of people who were actually looking for jobs. Auntie had lost her job as a tax analyst, turned around and became a nurse. Felt like I was ducking and dodging responsibility. I was just overeducated and useless, taking a job from someone who needed it and deserved it more than me. Got put in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, and when I was in that place, I didn't even feel like I was really depressed or really going through it. Felt like I was faking it to get out of something. Like I was avoiding work. Felt like there was no place for me, because I wasn't capable of working. All my friends who studied econ got jobs overseas, and I was just walking around taking up space.
Tochi Onyebuchi (Goliath)
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Are you going to tell your professor Jules and Baelin of your concern?” “You bet your ass, I am,” Alex said. “The worst thing they can say if I do tell them is, ‘you’re being crazy, Alex’ and maybe laugh at me a little. But the worst thing that can happen if I don’t tell them—just imagine smashed buildings, and fire, and screams.” “Mmm, true.” The prince patted Alex on the shoulder. “Well, if you are crazy, then this is still likely to end in smashed buildings, and fire, and screams. But I shall be there to put you down!” “Wait what?” Khalik grinned. “Think about it! The young, promising wizard turns to dark arts⁠—” “I don’t like where this is going.” “—while his good friend, the handsome brave prince must—regrettably—slay him⁠—” “I really don’t like where this is going.” “—and as you lay dying⁠—” Alex’s face screwed up in suspicion. “You’ve seriously put a lot of thought into this.” “You lament: ‘Oh, if only the Dark Wizard Alexander Roth had seen the light before! My only regret is that I only see a better way now as I lay dying! If only I had more time!’ And then, of course, you perish while I lament your loss and wish there was more time to⁠—” “There could be, just call a healer! Patch me up if I’ve seen the light, you bastard!” Khalik laughed. “Ah, but that would ruin the moment and the drama!” “The moment and drama are pretty ruined for me, cuz I’m dead!” “But think of all the young wizards that will avoid your dark path whenever they walk by the statue I have built to honour your memory.” Khalik faked a sniffle. “A memory of better times.” Alex glared at him. “You know, I tend to enjoy the stories where the plucky, underestimated hero beats the shit out of the arrogant prince and leaves him unconscious in some botanical garden. Even, you know, has a large, smashy friend do the same.” “That would be cheating.” “I’m supposed to be a dark wizard, right?” Alex lifted his chin as if defending his honour. “I don’t care about cheating!” “I thought you were a plucky, underestimated hero?” “I’m both! Life is full of greys!
J.M. Clarke (Mark of the Fool 3 (Mark of the Fool, #3))
So let's be really, really clear about what persistent stigma means for people with severe mental illness. You're faking it. You're delusional. You're weak. You're untrustworthy. You're selfish. You're self-pitying. You're unstable. You're dangerous. You can't make your own decisions. You're dumb. Your contributions are less worthy, more easily discounted. You're a liability — personally and professionally and socially. You aren't friend or lover or colleague or employee material. You make other people uncomfortable to the point they actively avoid you. You're less lovable. You're less deserving of effective, accessible treatment than people with other illnesses. You aren't worth the time or resources it would take to find out more about what's wrong with you. People would rather not deal with you or your problem. That's stigma. It's gross and profoundly damaging.
Anna Mehler Paperny (Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person)
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