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“Don’t attach significance to it. If it loses its power to be scary, it won’t hurt you anymore.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“I am better. I don't know whether it's for good, or if one day something might make me abnormal again. But that's the funny thing about living. If you do it properly, you don't know how the next sentence will begin.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“How can I stop it?”
“When the thought comes,” says Dr. Finch, “don’t push it away. That will make it worse. Just think ‘Oh look. It’s that thought again. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s not me.’ Don’t attach significance to it. If it loses its power to be scary, it won’t hurt you anymore.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“When the thought comes,” says Dr. Finch, “don’t push it away. That will make it worse. Just think ‘Oh look. It’s that thought again. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s not me.’ Don’t attach significance to it. If it loses its power to be scary, it won’t hurt you anymore.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“...Even though mental health is still the elephant in this room, the room is trying to accommodate the elephant, which is more than I expected.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“I have existed for 21 years. I didn't live them all, but from now on I am hoping to.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“Here's to the strong ones. Here's to the ones that never give up.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with her. She did not play tag and never required a seat. She was, by her very essence, nothing like these imaginary friends. She was just there. One was not proud of her, in the same way as one is not proud of a liver, and there was no need to show her off, nor tell anyone She existed.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“It is not your fault,” she repeats. “It is not your fault.”
“I never want to talk about this again,” I say”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“I never want to talk about this again,” I say”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“They should bury me here, the place where I run until my heart beats apart from all other noises, isolated like a drum removed from a score of hateful music I never wanted to play.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“They should bury me here, the place where I run until my heart beats apart from all the other noises, isolated like a drum removed from a score of hateful music I never wanted to play.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
“To love someone who is paid to be your friend is a terrible thing.”
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
― Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
