skybarn:

Holy Christ, read this.

A passage highlighted by Wallace in Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child: “But how can you love something you do not know, something that has never been loved? So it is that many a gifted person lives without any true notion of his or her true self. Such people are enamored of an idealized, conforming, false self. They will shun their hidden and lost true self, unless depression makes them aware of its loss or psychosis confronts them harshly with that true self, whom they now have to face and to whom they are delivered up, helplessly, as to a threatening stranger.”

(Source: alexbalk, via whiskey-robot)