Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillnes...
I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.
The shimmering, ever-shifting borderline, like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed.
It never stopped, even at night, it was our lullaby. It was our metronome, our pulse. It was our lives measured out in doses slightly larger than those famous coffee spoons. Soup spoons, maybe? Dented...
There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don’t feel the same. They must reflect quite different aspects of brain function. The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by...
Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to pro...
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?
I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll a...
Quando sei triste hai bisogno di sentire il tuo dolore fatto musica
Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.
The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of the not-entirely-false model, imagine the first interpreter as a foreign corresponde...
Nothing, I said. It's quiet. It's like I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff. I laughed. I guess my life will just stop when I get married.It didn't. It wasn't quiet either. And in the end, I lo...
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.
Assim nuas, precisávamos de proteção, e o hospital nos protegia. É claro que primeiro o hospital nos desnudava - mas isso apenas reforçava sua obrigação de nos dar abrigo.
Like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it’s cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you’v...
One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.
Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
I think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
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