You can change your life, and you can heal yourself.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the end of her life, and that was the voice I heard for her.
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.