When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
Marya HornbacherTag: reality madness bipolar-disorder mental-illness manic-depression
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.
Craig FergusonTag: money drinking alcohol heartbreak insane alcoholism mental-illness
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: inspirational self-discovery creativity creative-process outsider mental-illness
The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.
Joanne GreenbergTag: depression mental-illness
I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.
Kiera Van GelderTag: mental-illness borderline-personality-disorder
If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient?
Robert WhitakerTag: mental-illness medication
...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)
Robert WhitakerTag: parents mental-illness medication
If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
SocratesTag: writing craziness writing-life mental-illness
I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotional reactions, chastising myself for possible distortions and motivations. People who had known me years ago would barely recognize me now. I had become quiet and withdrawn in social settings, no longer the life of the party. After all, how could I know if my boisterous humor were spontaneous or just a borderline desire to be the center of attention? I could no longer trust any of my heart felt beliefs and opinions on politics, religion, or life. The debate queen had withered. I found myself looking at every single side of an issue unable to come to any conclusions for fear they might be tainted. My lifelong ability to be assertive had turned into a constant state of passivity.
Rachel ReilandTag: self-doubt mental-illness mental-disorder borderline borderline-personality-disorder bpd diagnosis emotional-pain self-blame
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel LeeTag: insanity madness mad psychiatry mental-health mental-illness mental-disorder mental-health-stigma insane-world insanity-is-normal psychiatry-humor
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