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When you lived in an unpredictable world with no security, anxiety was your ally. It warned you of coming danger

Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am I seeking attention? Showing off? The pain of the cuts releases the mental pain of the memories, but the pain of healing lasts weeks. After every self-harming or overdosing incident I run the risk of being sectioned and returned to a psychiatric institution, a harrowing prospect I would not recommend to anyone. So, why do I do it? I don't. If I had power over the alters, I'd stop them. I don't have that power. When they are out, they're out. I experience blank spells and lose time, consciousness, dignity. If I, Alice Jamieson, wanted attention, I would have completed my PhD and started to climb the academic career ladder. Flaunting the label 'doctor' is more attention-grabbing that lying drained of hope in hospital with steri-strips up your arms and the vile taste of liquid charcoal absorbing the chemicals in your stomach. In most things we do, we anticipate some reward or payment. We study for status and to get better jobs; we work for money; our children are little mirrors of our social standing; the charity donation and trip to Oxfam make us feel good. Every kindness carries the potential gift of a responding kindness: you reap what you sow. There is no advantage in my harming myself; no reason for me to invent delusional memories of incest and ritual abuse. There is nothing to be gained in an A&E department.

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

With making changes, the difficult part of trying to implement a new way, idea or thought, is getting people to believe the effect of your notion, and have them believe in themselves of adapting to something new.

Within obsession lies madness and genius

With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm.

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.

Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Working simultaneously, though seemingly without a conscience, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, whose base was a laboratory in Canada's McGill University, in Montreal. Since his death in 1967, the history of his work for both himself and the CIA has become known. He was interested in 'terminal' experiments and regularly received relatively small stipends (never more than $20,000) from the American CIA order to conduct his work. He explored electroshock in ways that offered such high risk of permanent brain damage that other researchers would not try them. He immersed subjects in sensory deprivation tanks for weeks at a time, though often claiming that they were immersed for only a matter of hours. He seemed to fancy himself a pure scientist, a man who would do anything to learn the outcome. The fact that some people died as a result of his research, while others went insane and still others, including the wife of a member of Canada's Parliament, had psychological problems for many years afterwards, was not a concern to the doctor or those who employed him. What mattered was that by the time Cheryl and Lynn Hersha were placed in the programme, the intelligence community had learned how to use electroshock techniques to control the mind. And so, like her sister, Lynn was strapped to a chair and wired for electric shock. The experience was different for Lynn, though the sexual component remained present to lesser degree...

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

You are the answer. All you have to do is believe.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

You can only CONVERSE with a mind having the similar level of your understanding and maturity - with the rest you can at best - TALK !

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind of work, because it's the only compulsion that will drive you through the psychological nightmares of writing.

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.

Everything that we put into our bodies should also be of nature, a part of that cycle of nature. Once you start messing with that - as I said, everything is connected. Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.