It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
Susanna KaysenI think many people ill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
Susanna KaysenOur hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Susanna KaysenEmptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.
Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.
Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.
Susanna KaysenTags: insanity crazy mental-illness girl-interrupted
All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.
Susanna KaysenTags: psychology
There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.
Susanna KaysenAs far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
Susanna KaysenMaybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.
Susanna KaysenWhatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons that 'animates' us.
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