Ask me in 1998 when I first started this website if I’d ever think the word “joy” would appear anywhere remotely near my name, and I’d laugh out loud. Then I’d immediately burst into tears, since at the time I was suffering from clinical depression, and I’d cry more often than I’d smile or laugh [...]
Culture and Society
On Quora there were a couple of questions relating to suicide that piqued my interest: Why did David Foster Wallace commit suicide? and Is Suicide Selfish? As a person who has, in the past, experienced clinical depression and suicidal ideation, I understand that this question is 1) loaded and 2) easy to answer with a [...]
Shame and humiliation are powerful weapons in emotional abuse and the control of the will of a human being. Once a person has internalized that shame and humiliation and begins to believe it, that person will then continue to perpetrate shame and humiliation unto himself and becomes his own abuser. The victim also becomes addicted [...]
Here’s an interesting question: “What can cause a person to feel more alone in a room full of people than when they are actually alone?” My personal experience is that this is primarily due to the self-perception that one has little or nothing in common with any other person in the room, which leads to [...]
Suicide is a controversial subject. This is my opinion, take it as such! [keep reading]
Amy Chua is right about this form of parenting when you want to create a society that: 1) considers physical, mental, and emotional coercion as the only form of gaining compliance from a human being 2) considers outward success based on a standard of “winning” and “better than” as the only form of success 3) [...]
I actually wrote this article in 2006 when I titled it, “An Asian Adult Child’s Guide to Reclaiming Your Own Mind”. In light of the recent “Chinese Mothers are Superior” article, I thought I’d share how ANY adult children who have been programmed for self-hatred can begin to reclaim themselves as human beings. If you [...]
