Gabor Mate

When the Body Says No

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
  • Novem MWhas quoted4 months ago
    The idea that people’s emotional coping style can be a factor in scleroderma or other chronic conditions is anathema to some physicians.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted7 months ago
    excess of painful, unmetabolized emotion.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted7 months ago
    like laboratory animals unable to escape, people find themselves trapped in lifestyles and emotional patterns inimical to their health. The higher the level of economic development, it seems, the more anaesthetized we have become to our emotional realities. We no longer sense what is happening in our bodies and cannot therefore act in self-preserving ways. The physiology of stress eats away at our bodies not because it has outlived its usefulness but because we may no longer have the competence to recognize its signals.
  • Visual Johnhas quoted7 months ago
    It was evident that he found the prospect of Alexa’s death unbearably frightening, and also that she appeared to deny the diagnosis m
  • dolcecoahas quotedlast year
    Hans Selye in The Stress of Life.1
  • yulyaisirjozhahas quoted2 years ago
    For anger to be deployed appropriately, the organism has to distinguish between threat and non-threat. The fundamental differentiation to be made is between self and non-self. If I don’t know where my own boundaries begin and end, I cannot know when something potentially dangerous is intruding on them
  • yulyaisirjozhahas quoted2 years ago
    Celia’s rigid belief that she could get through everything by herself was a coping mechanism, a compensation for emotional needs ignored in childhood. A child in her situation survives by pretending to herself, and to the world, that she has no needs she cannot take care of herself
  • yulyaisirjozhahas quoted2 years ago
    Such instances do not indicate that the person has no emotions; someone truly lacking attachment could at least pretend to possess some fellow feeling. On the contrary, the emotions can be too overwhelming to be experienced consciously—but they are physiologically all the more active. Once more we witness that avoiding the experience of emotion in fact exposes people to greater and longer-lasting physiological stress
  • yulyaisirjozhahas quoted2 years ago
    An emotional shutdown, a tuning-out of reality, is his brain’s most readily available defence
  • yulyaisirjozhahas quoted2 years ago
    While a young child may not be cognitively aware of family disgrace, emotionally he is absorbing all the negative psychic vibrations of the stressed family system
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)