The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.