Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer.” The cancer.
Heather SellersI think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It’s the day of the accident, the midlife crisis, the breakdown, the meltdown, the walkout, the sellout, the giving up, giving away, or giving in. The day you stop drinking, or the day you start. The day you know things will never be the same again
Heather SellersHe said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not a part of myself.
Heather SellersDon’t get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder’s container idea: Notice everything, but don’t buy into it. Hold it.
Heather SellersOff and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I’d bring chapters to workshop, to writing group, and I always got the same comments: How could you live this way? How could you survive this? It’s too raw. You don’t speak to these people, do you? I was deeply hurt by these reactions, and also confused. This was my mother. I loved her. This was my family. My life. How could it be too raw?
Heather SellersIn childhood, it’s our parents who give us our standards for experience: “Here’s an inch,” they say. “And this is a foot.” And a child says, “Thanks! I can make my own yardstick now.” In my family, there wasn’t any kind of calibration demonstration. In the chaos, I struggled to figure out anything at all.
Heather SellersI know how to wait for clarity to emerge from chaos. I know what it is to trust in the power of the unseen.
Heather SellersI started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle.
I’m here. Help. Please find me.
...writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
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