Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself. What's more I'd be crazy not to go crazy. We don't know what an illness is. On awful hurts we plaster little old words, as if we could think hell with a paper bandage.Anonymous
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Haruki Murakami wrote in his novel, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running," that he often feels like he’s suffering from a headache in his mind. He says it happens in the middle of the night and when he tries to talk about it in the morning, he can’t remember what caused it or how it felt. To him, this is proof that his brain has gone haywire. It’s like suffering without suffering.
He says the pain is so real that it actually hurts. The frustration gets worse when he can’t find what he considers evidence for his suffering. That’s when suffering becomes suffering without suffering.
Source: Hyperdream
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