“In my more lucid moments I realized that insanity was a fairly reasonable explanation for what was happening to me. The problem was that it wasn't useful information. Realizing I was crazy didn't make the crazy stuff stop happening. Nor did it give me any clues about what I should do next.” CrazyMadnessMental HealthMental IllnessInsanity Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“For me to have sat around calling the crazy stuff "crazy" would have been the most wasteful, unimaginative thing I could have done. There were so many much better things to do with it.” CrazyMadnessMental HealthMental IllnessSchizophrenia Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“My job didn't involve working directly with patients, but I thought about them a lot. I saw them as victims of our fucked-up, materialistic, impersonal, hectic, over-mechanized, dehumanizing society. There wasn't much mystery about why these people were so screwed up. The mystery was why everyone else wasn't nuts too. But somehow I never figured it could ever happen to me, that I could some day be shuffling around in slippers and pajamas, bumming cigarettes and mumbling to myself. There were too many people who loved me, who would never commit me to an institution, whose love would keep me from getting that spaced out.” SocietyInstitutionsMental HealthInsanity Book:The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
