“Doctors and nurses are brave souls during a pandemic.”
Steven Magee Continue reading “Waiting For Someone To Come Home”
You’re Just “Triggered”, Mate
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Worn Out
“The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.”
Marianne Williamson Continue reading “Worn Out”
Where To Next
“Writing quotes is therapy for my damaged brain.”
Steven Magee Continue reading “Where To Next”
Taking The Blue Pill
“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
Freddie Kruger Ain’t Got Shit
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula
The Long Road Going Nowhere
“A year from now you will wish you had started today”
Karen Lamb
Can I Play With Madness
“You know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any goodness I started with just slowly spilled out of me, and now it’s all gone. And I’ll never get it back in me. It’s too late. Life is a series of closing doors, isn’t it?”
Bojack Horseman, Bojack Horseman
Into The Wilderness
“Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it through your hands. There’s so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it’s like rocket fuel! Right now, you could run faster and you can fight harder, you could jump higher than ever in your life. And you’re so alert, it’s like you can slow down time. What’s wrong with scared? Scared is a super power. It’s your super power.”
The 12th Doctor, Listen
