A Neurosis Defends Itself By

We Already Live A Very Long Time For Mammals, Getting Three Times As Many Heartbeats As A Mouse Or Elephant. It Never Seems Enough Though, Does It?

In All Of History, We Have Found Just One Cure For Error—a Partial Antidote Against Making And Repeating Grand, Foolish Mistakes, A Remedy Against Self-deception. That Antidote Is Criticism.

The Measure Of (mental) Health Is Flexibility (not Comparison To Some 'norm'), The Freedom To Learn From Experience ... To Be Influenced By Reasonable Arguments ... And The Appeal To The Emotions ... And Especially The Freedom To Cease When Sated. The Essence Of Illness Is The Freezing Of Behavior Into Unalterable And Insatiable Patterns.

Prison For The Crime Of Puberty -- That Was How Secondary School Had Seemed.

What Point Was There In Pursuing An Ever-elusive Popularity?