Mental Disorder


Real (Real, #1)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Bell Jar
My Torin
Challenger Deep
Black Lies
Every Last Word
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
Turtles All the Way Down
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Wintergirls
Puddle Jumping (Puddle Jumping, #1)
Mine (Real, #2)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Find You in the Dark (Find You in the Dark, #1)
Shannon L. Alder
It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. It is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week where you began. It is not learning from your mistakes. It is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. It is moments of knowing your pain is self inflicted, followed by blaming the world. It is wanting to listen, but you just can’t anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged yo ...more
Shannon L. Alder

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.
David J. Morris, The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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