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“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.”

Ifs Kind Body Felt Normal Odd Emptiness Lacking Detachment Frail Clumsy Fragility Numbness Coordination

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.”

Whole Body Left Essentials Skins Bones Emptiness Hollow Detachment Numbness Skin And Bones

Author:Tracy Chapman