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.
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...
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...
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...
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?
Quando sei triste hai bisogno di sentire il tuo dolore fatto musica
One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about 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...
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending o...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.
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...
Sa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.[…] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their...
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