Mental Illnesses


All the Bright Places
The Bell Jar
It's Kind of a Funny Story
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Girl in Pieces
Girl, Interrupted
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Turtles All the Way Down
Suicide Notes
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Made You Up
Challenger Deep
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
Under Rose-Tainted Skies
History Is All You Left Me
Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can. ...more
Nic Sheff, Schizo

Philip K. Dick
… the several sub-types of mental illness should be functioning on this world as classes somewhat like those of ancient India. These people here, the hebephrenics, would be equivalent to the untouchables[*]. The maniacs would be the warrior class, without fear; one of the highest. … … The paranoids – actually paranoiac schizophrenics – would function as the statesman class; they’d be in charge of developing political ideology and social programs – they’d have the overall world view. The simple s ...more
Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

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