They say grief occurs in five stages. First there’s denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you’re free you realize you never...

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I...

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title indicates, and not a study. The author is a well known skeptic regarding...

If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as...

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Now what state do you live in?”Denial.

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

The thing about denial is that it doesn’t feel like denial when it’s going on.

Special interests do get more and they do get what they pay for despite the constant denial that lawmakers can’t be bought,

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

Never love someone beneath your level of evolution. If you want a monkey, you can visit one at your local zoo.

The mind, stretched to new dimensions by images, thoughts and ideas, can never return to its former shape.

alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the ritual abuse she was to remember the alien abduction, so that nobody would believe her account of the ritual abuse....

Kicking the can down the road implies that we’re accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we’ve avoiding, it’s something that’s not going to go away; at least on its own.

That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

That was no Holocaust denial, that was only (a statement) about a part of the (Holocaust) history.

DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of acting happy and fine at an early age. I can remember many times telling...

We don’t know if it’s because more people and parents are aware and less are in denial or if things have gotten worse. We’re hoping that’s not the case.

Ain’t that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain’t touched the big mysteries — where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something...

Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though “satanic ritual abuse” did describe what had happened to me when I was a...

Yeah, he only loves you for your mind,” Shane said…

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.