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“Moods should be heard but never danced to.”

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

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Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

This book is a candid account of the author's experiences and reflections on the challenges and triumphs encountered in the quest for personal development and identity. more

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Hugh Prather

English biography, 120-180 words more

“Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.”

“I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.”

People Thinking Want Writing Disease Depression Comfortable Fundamentals Illness Mental Illness Discomfort

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.”

Ifs Use Natural Depression Illness Mental Illness Journal Therapists Thesaurus

Author:Amy Tan

“Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.”

Depression Illness Mental Illness Cures Inevitable Greatest Gifts

Author:Stephanie S. Tolan

“I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.”

People Thinking Conversation Depression Illness Mental Illness Melancholy Dialect

Author:Virginia Heffernan

“I have been cut in two.”

Has Beens Two Cutting Mental Health

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”

Self Mental Health Illness Possession Myth Mental Illness Stable Inner Self Bipolar Disturbance

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?”

World Should Language Voice Goes On Depression Mental Health Disappear Manage Boards Should I Discourse Urgent Inner Voice Anecdotes Small Talk

Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.”

Knows Mind Ends Courses Social Steps Watches Example Madness Mental Health Threat Lifetime Population Fantastic Behave Jail Dictatorship Floats Detention Madhouses Social Control

Author:Kate Millett

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