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My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed. ”
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. ”
I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason. ”
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men. ”
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. ”
It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. ”
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it. ”
I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management. ”
A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others. ”
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. ”