There’s an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I’ll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Its not the label of autism we need for our children, its the help and understanding that comes with that label that we need.

I rehearsed Foucault’s argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we’re free to mourn him out in the open in a...

You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find...

If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?

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...

Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that we look them in the eye and take them seriously. Our work demands...

Episodes is about discovery of one’s psyche and true personality while being completely absorbed in one’s one Mind and thoughts. A story of coping and finding an unsure contentment. Finding the Rational Soul in all...

Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am...

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly...

There were other strange signals and signs. Another day, suddenly felt an almost overwhelming urge to travel to Balitmore. I wanted to ‘kidnap’ a helicoper fly it there if I didn’t drive the there’, she...

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. My mother remained in the same hospital at Kalamazoo for about...

With a damp palm, I turned the knob and cracked open the door. She was asleep in her freshly made bed. I can’t explain how relieved I felt for this simple mercy. She was here...

You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures’ or ‘losers’. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably...

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife’s barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, “It was enough to...

But money spent while manic doesn’t fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you’re given excellent reason to be even more so.

If the whole world seems like it’s against you, it helps to know that you’ve still got home. A safe place. It just takes one person—a teacher, a friend, a parent. If I didn’t have...

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

I had people saying ‘it’s all in your head’. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

It is in my head! That’s why it’s called Mental Illness.

I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

Once I had found the courage to tell Rebecca about the children in my head, it wasn’t so hard in the coming months to tell Roberta. On the train from Huddersfield one day in May...

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest...

Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the...

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He’d say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he’d add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this,...

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls’ emotional state at that point, he said, “Buffeted but not broken.

I’ve grown up with an ethic, call it a part, that insists I hide my pain at all costs. As I talk, I feel this pain leaking out—not just the core symptom of BPD, but...

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice anything. They don’t care about what people think of them....

My Oneness will stop the machine that overtakes people’s minds. Do we really need new clothes, or new cars, or new TVs? Should we really ingest food made from chemicals not of this earth? Should...

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it’s the smell of schizophrenia.

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate...

It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I’d imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality…it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug...

Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.

My insides contract- bad. “who are you?” I ask right out loud. And he says what I’ve been afraid of since I killed Lester’s father. Haven’t you guessed? I’m you. The real you.

I want this girl I know i’ll never have.But in my mind she’ll always be my lady.I fell in love with her instantly after seeing her beautiful face online.I always dreamed and fantasized about her...

Forgive me,” I wrote at the bottom. “I did not think I would break.

Gingerbread I knew I had to get out of therebefore the icing cracked and they discoveredthat I’m burnt around the edges,doughy in the center,that what they thought was sugaris salt.If I was a good girl,if...

Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through...

As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn’s stories could not be denied. She was not only...

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there…

…his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it. The popular...