5 Quotes by Ruth Dugdall

...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don’t believe them.

Say something often enough, people think it’s true. But what happens if it’s a lie and people just go on believing it?