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“Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.”
“What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?”
“We don’t go in for that psychodynamic stuff around here. Those guys will talk you to death, clean out your bank account while they are doing it, and then invite you to come back and express your in...”
“John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.”
“An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
“Rising from the ashes, I am born again,powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.”
“But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions”
“You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.”
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace of mind. The first step toward these things is em...”
“The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.”
“But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.”
“No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.”
“Be who you are. Do what you can. Embrace the journey.”
“…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappi...”
“Nobody feels ashamed of going to the dentist; it’s socially appropriate to take care of your teeth, even preventively. In short, it’s more normal to take care of our dental health than our mental h...”
“Didn’t you find it all … rather unsatisfying?”“Yes, but I couldn’t seem to see a way out. It was like being three different people, and they all wanted to go different ways.”A slight smile. “The re...”
“And that will be on my medical records for ever.Everyone will always know I’m a nutter. Behavioural problems. I’m just a bloody label…A label written on a white board in a single room without a rad...”
“I’m so NUMB. I just don’t care, it seems-but I must do. This is all going to sound totally incoherent. I’m that bunged up, but totally empty. I think my worries about who I am have reached a head.I...”
