Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.
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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
oppression
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.
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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.