Stephen King. Game Gerald (№ 255948)

It is often thought that these newfangled psychologists did not understand many of the really important things - and deliberately do not understand, but with regard to the survivability of some of the memories... in this they are absolutely right. There are things that are firmly etched in my memory, they cling to the man like the evil leeches, which do not pull out any forces. Until then they do not show themselves, but certain words - "idiot" and "stupid", for example - and instantly awaken, and then they begin to torment a person by a new one.