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The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Senses
Buddhism
Deal
Rigid
Deals
Psyche
Humanity
Repression
Doesn
Mentally
Reason
Ill
Something
Unknown

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