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“Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.”

WritingReasonWorkFantasyDepressionComfortableOptimismMadnessHappyWriterRoughNeuroticGloomGameDiscouragementPsychoticPsychosisNecessarySustainStagesNeuroses
Author:Patricia Highsmith
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“What amounts to a plague of mental illness is now addressed as ‘normal’ rather than as an indication that there is something terrifyingly wrong with our culture. The fact that we no longer understand mental illness as a message – that is, as a nondeclarative communication of an imbalance that requires rectification – not only demonstrates the degree of our emotional illiteracy, but our failure to understand the principle of balance as the axis of all existence.”

BalanceMemoryMental IllnessImbalanceDysfunctionWestern CultureDysfunctional FamiliesDesensitizationNormalizationNeuroses
Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
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