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“In the years following my first hospitalization and my first explorations into myself, I determined to become someone I could live with, if not, in the words of the therapist, someone I could love. My first efforts were based on my blanket acceptance that I wasn't a very good person, and that I should change those parts of myself that could be changed. I hadn't yet realized that I'd simply internalized all the verbal assaults that characterized the first eighteen years of my life.”
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
“To some, madness can be seductive, a way of getting back, of getting even. The only problem is, you can get lost forever.”
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
“I'm often asked why I got out when so many didn't.
I've mentioned the high school teacher who stopped me in the hall for my assistance in a school performance. Before that man, whose name is Stan Asher, no one had ever looked at me or spoken to me as though I had value. For me, that's the key. Otherwise, I probably would have gone on believing that I was intrinsically bad, with nothing to offer. I believe that many in that house were never offered a positive image of themselves.”
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
I've mentioned the high school teacher who stopped me in the hall for my assistance in a school performance. Before that man, whose name is Stan Asher, no one had ever looked at me or spoken to me as though I had value. For me, that's the key. Otherwise, I probably would have gone on believing that I was intrinsically bad, with nothing to offer. I believe that many in that house were never offered a positive image of themselves.”
― Upstairs In The Crazy House: The Life Of A Psychiatric Survivor
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