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What would she do? She used to say we are made up of different parts, some good, some bad; and that a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both good and bad at the same time. Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration � we end up losing contact with the unacceptable parts of ourselves.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. Sigmund Freud
Someone who has never learned to contain himself is plagued by anxious feelings for the rest of his life; feelings that Bion aptly titled ‘nameless dread�. And such a person endlessly seeks this unquenchable containment from external sources � he needs a drink or a joint to ‘take the edge off� this endless anxiety � hence my addiction to marijuana.
Remember, love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.�
‘A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.�
