I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

Scott Westerfeld
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Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote in "Prozac Nation", that she had heard that "if you locked people up, then they would be cured." She goes on to write, "There is no such thing as curing a chemical imbalance. No one can really cure anything. Your mind is an organ like your liver or lungs. It needs time and space and quiet and love and light and heat to be healthy. And it needs to do things, say things, go places, feel things in order to heal."

Source: The Last Days

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