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...
Reality was getting too dense.
Sana di mente in un mondo di pazzi.
Why I am opposed to antidepressants. Because I think depression has something to tell me. Because often depression is an appropriate reaction.Because I am terrified of changing the functioning of my b...
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .
Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
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...
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...
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.
Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
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...
Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a chil...
Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.
That’s because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.
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 floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to igno...
The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted
The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.
There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.
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