I'm your mind, it claims. You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses
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
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions...
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...
But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airi...
But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver quality, saying one thing but meaning some...
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...
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...
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
Then he heard the hum. Vibrating in consonance with one of the tones of the ocean's churning, it slid in and out of perceptibility in the way that the landscape disappeared in the mist. But by stillin...
The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.
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...
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think manypeople kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.Anything I thought...
Stavolta lessi il titolo del quadro: Ragazza interrotta mentre suona.Interrotta mentre suona: com’era stata la mia vita, interrotta nella musica dei miei diciassette anni, com’era stata la sua vita, s...
Something had been peeled back, a covering or shell that works to protect us. I couldn’t decide whether the covering was something on me or something attached to every thing in the world. It didn’t ma...
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneat...
Particular patterns of thought get attached to particular movements or activities, and before you know it, it’s impossible to approach that movement or activity without dislodging an avalanche of pret...
One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.
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...