My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.
Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.
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Neel Burton
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
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Stanley Victor Paskavich
The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of...
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Ernst Von Feuchtersleben
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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Jeanette Winterson
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.
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Allie Burke
More Quotes By Marya Hornbacher
That which stirs within, slows or quickens, goes deep or dies out. When I speak of spirit, I am not speaking of something related to or given by a force outside ourselves. I am speaking of the force that is ourselves. The experience of living...
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human...
I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see...
