My upcoming novel I Was Here deals with the aftermath of a young woman named Meg's suicide and looks at what happens to those left behind, particularly Meg's best friend Cody, who, in obsessing about the what and the why around Meg's death, begins to circle the drain of self-harm.
By contrast, the draining of self-confidence and clout from other sectors, notably local authorities and businesses, has seriously damaged the northern economy in the last 25 years.
Megan Dodds, who was recently so impressive as the blazing idealist Rachel Corrie, does the difficult thing of presenting someone drained of self-esteem without draining her spectators, of showing how an able person can become bound to people who are betraying her.
If this is true, the Tea Party will be drained of its self-righteous populism by the popular vote itself.
But in social work, you forget how emotionally draining the professional use of self can be, and after eight years I was burnt out.
I got that same feeling I'd felt when I heard that Dr King or someone else was killed; that sense of a certain part of you being drained away, a loss of self.
The minder of the bar's sad menagerie, Harry is slowly drained of his sometimes irascible, sometimes benevolent vitality by the slow drip of self-awareness.
The process of becoming a mother is characterized by overwhelming change, constant learning and a reconstruction of self, including feelings of being drained, of loss and aloneness.
Kind of self explanitory.
An ever-widening, near-hairless gully that runs to the bald spot on the crown of my head, like a river of skin draining into the pool of self-loathing.
