Quotes Tagged With :mechanism

She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed....

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.....

...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment....

Daddy," she says again, this time putting more of a needy whine into her voice. It is the thing that....

It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so....

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even....

The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the....

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay....

I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just....

I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face....