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  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back

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“My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.”
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“Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isnt like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (...”
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“in my experience, the words now just calm down almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”
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“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”
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“Theres a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life....We who struggle with the...”
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“The simple truth is, not every fight can be won.”
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