Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of cookie-cutter approach and explanation of mental illness, It is not ab advocacy of any particular form of therapy over another. Nor is it meant to take sides in the legitimate and necessary debate within the mental health profession if which treatments are most effective for this or any other mental illness.
What it is, I hope, is a way for readers to get a true feel for what it's like to be in the grips of mental illness and what it's like to strive for recovery.
Tags: memoir psychotherapy mental-illness borderline bpd
I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down: how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger
Mary KarrTags: memoir
Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.
Doug PedersenTags: memoir author quotes-by-doug-pedersen tuna-breath
A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.
Sean WilseyThankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Steve MartinTags: talent creativity celebrity memoir perseverance creativity-and-attitude celebrity-memoir
Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.
Various attributed sourcesTags: memoir acting fathers-and-daughters baby-boomers seniors
Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words have been the source of the pain and the way to heal. Struck as a child for talking, for speaking out of turn, for being out of my place. Struck as a grown woman for not knowing when to shut up, for not being willing to sacrifice words for desire. Struck by writing a book that disrupts. There are many ways to be hit. Pain is the price we pay to speak the truth.
bell hooksTags: poetry writing childhood memoir
Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had to be shared. If she tried to hold anything back, they would search and find the hidden places. Her written words, discovered, read were just the source of more pain and punishment. This was why she loved poetry. They did not always understand it so they left it alone.
bell hooksTags: poetry writing childhood memoir
I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.
Jolina PetersheimTags: inspirational god memoir redemption biography heartache hardships shunning
This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where joy is harmonized by sorrow, where endings outnumber beginnings, and where kindness becomes a sacrament.
Katrina KenisonTags: memoir
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