Terri E Apter Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. February 28, 1949
Birthday: February 28
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.
topic: Self Confidence, Unique, Swings, Self Deprecation, Euphoric
