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...
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.
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.
An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
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...
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched an...
Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing o...
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...
Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.
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
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.
Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all bound...
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted
Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A...
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...
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.
The shimmering, ever-shifting borderline, like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed.
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...
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