“Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in your favor), you’re lonely there. The people you boarded with originally are far, far ahead of you, and now you’re stuck playing catch-up.” LifeRelationshipsDepressionAnxietyMental IllnessTreatmentEating DisorderMental Disorder Book:The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Source: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
“in my experience, the words “now just calm down” almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.” AnxietyPanic AttacksPanic And AnxietyPanicky Book:The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Source: The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness