“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”

—  Alice Miller

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

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