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“I tried to off myself.”
Conrad Jarrett
Conrad conceitedly answers Dr. Berger when he probes regarding the reason for his admission in a mental hospital for eight months. At this point in time, Conrad is still at the initial steps into his healing process psychologically. Just released from the institution where he did not really confront the root of his self-hatred that led to his suicide attempt, Conrad takes the first step. In the assertion he dismisses this act as trivial in the manner he utters it, which shows his evasion of the core issue around his mental health. He is trying to mentally escape and disregard it as a means of making it disappear but true healing comes full acceptance. Thus, this marks the beginning of his journey as he slowly gets in touch with his emotions and outside factors that manifested the instability in the first place.
“And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.”
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“You ask me if an ordinary person—by studying hard—would get to be able to imagine these things like I imagine. Of course. I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing, and they learned all this stuff. They're just people. There's no talent or special miracle ability to understand quantum mechanics or a miracle ability to imagine electromagnetic fields that comes without practice and reading and learning and study. So if you take an ordinary person who's willing to devote a great deal of time and study and work and thinking and mathematics, then he's become a scientist.”
&#; Richard P. Feynman
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“And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of secu
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