You can see why doubting one’s own craziness isconsidered a good sign: It’s a sort of flailing response bythe second interpreter. What’s happening? the secondinterpreter is saying. He tells me it’s a...
Sana di mente in un mondo di pazzi.
What does the sign say? ‘If you lived here, you’d be home now.’ She clenched her hands with excitement. See, every day people will drive past and read that sign and think, ‘Yeah, if I lived here I’d...
A tidal wave of blackness broke over her head. The entire world was obliterated–for a few minutes. She knew she had gone crazy. She looked around the theater to see if it had happened to everyone, but...
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
Can I try the dryler?No. No. Eyvinder grabbed it and held it to his breast. Jonathan, I must make a confession. He grinned. This is really a stone I painted to resemble a dryler. It's very good, no? I...
Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber bec...
Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the...
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 on a roof: We’ve all had those. And somewhat more dangerous thing...
They didn’t have time to wonder why I was a little more miserable than most.
I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.
I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted
I'm Ambivalent. In fact that's my new favorite word.Do you know what it means ?I don't care.
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
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 always have to think about it. I often ask myself if I'm...
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
The disorder is more common in women. Note the construction of that sentence. They did not write, The disorder is more common in women. It would still be suspect, but they didn't bother trying to cove...
Asa’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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