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This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Nathan Filer

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Tags: labels, mad, mental illness, psychology, schizophrenia

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

Nathan Filer

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

Tags: mental illness

About Author
Nathan Filer is a British writer best known for his debut novel, The Shock of the Fall. This won several major literary awards, including the Costa Book of the Year and the Betty Trask Prize. It was a Sunday Times Bestseller, and has been translated into thirty languages.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

Nathan Filer

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

Tags: adulthood, coming of age, family, parents

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Nathan Filer

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Tags: illness, message, selfish, selfishness, whisper, world

I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness d...

Nathan Filer

I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness d...

Tags: grief, madness, mother, schizophrenia, son

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

Nathan Filer

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

Tags: memories, writing

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

Nathan Filer

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

Tags: positive thoughts

Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,...

Nathan Filer

Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,...

Tags: expectations, growing up, potential, purpose, self realization

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

Nathan Filer

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

Tags: life, people, reaction, social