“In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, electrical signals, and hormones that elicit feelings... feeling drives memory, populates the moving pictures we see.” FeelingsMemoriesChildhoodEmotionsMemoirMental Illness Book:Everything Is Fine Source: Everything Is Fine
“Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling to put them in order, that almost destroyed me. It's also what allowed me to live again.” FamilyEmotionalMental IllnessSchizophreniaMemior Book:Everything Is Fine Source: Everything Is Fine