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“Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.”

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Susanna Kaysen is an American author best known for her autobiographical novel 'Girl, Interrupted,' which is based on her own experiences at the McLean Hospital psychiatric ward in the early 1960s. more

“The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.”

Source: Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

“The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.”

Humans Made States Nations Race Cities Survival Illness Stupidity Aids Human Race Neighborhood Disgusting County Disgusted Grabbing Family Relationship Animalistic

Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.”

Doe Different Grief Lord Fire Illness Spares Colleagues Recognise Impetus

Author:Eleanor of Aquitaine

“Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.”

People Thinking Ideas Facts Form Too Much Illness Sickness Association Superstitions Accentuate

Book:Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Source: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

“I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.”

Knows Believe Soul Certain I Believe Sides Levels Journey Degrees Leaving Illness Accidents

Author:John Edward

“I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.”

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Author:Kenneth H. Cooper

“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.”

World Mother Understood Illness Diseased

Book:Mother Night: A Novel

Source: Mother Night: A Novel

“I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.”

Years Mother Share Rain Twenties Illness Heavy Eight

Book:The Paris Wife: A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel

“People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.”

People Real Streets Dying Crime Sick Prison Illness Mental Illness Jail

Author:Pete Earley

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