Mad Up

Important People in My Life, Moods 28 Responses »

22 Aug2010

What, pray tell, is a ‘Mad Up’? A Mad Up is a social encounter wherein all the attendees are clinically mad (excluding, perhaps, the partners of the aforesaid attendees). Mad Ups involve a group of individuals with social anxiety meeting a mass group of human beings that they have not met in their lives before. [...]

Investigating Transference... - C: Week 57, Part I

C, Finances, Psychotherapy, Traumatic Stuff 16 Responses »

19 Jul2010

I was bricking myself about this session with C, after his apparent transference-related realisations at the end of the last meeting. I don’t want to tell him I want him to hold me, stroke my hair, soothingly kiss my forehead and softly whisper protective words in my ear. I mean, who would want to reveal such intimate and one-sided desires? [...]

The Whining Topics

H P Lovecraft: Telling It Like It Is

Frankly, I cannot conceive how any thoughtful man can really be happy. There is really nothing in the universe to live for, and unless one can dismiss thought and speculation from his mind, he is liable to be engulfed by the very immensity of creation.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.