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  • #1
    Jennifer Niven
    “It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #2
    “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
    Juliette Lewis

  • #3
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #4
    Guy de Maupassant
    “A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
    Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

  • #5
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #6
    Osamu Dazai
    “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #7
    Marya Hornbacher
    “When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

  • #8
    “I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.”
    Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline

  • #9
    Jasmine Warga
    “Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

  • #10
    Brené Brown
    “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
    Brené Brown

  • #11
    Matt Haig
    “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
    Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

  • #12
    “Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
    Theodore Kaczynski

  • #13
    Francesca Zappia
    “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.”
    Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

  • #14
    John Green
    “Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #15
    Osamu Dazai
    “He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #16
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

    It’s important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there’s a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there’s a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there’s a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.

    The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.

    In reality, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”
    Susanna Kaysen

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To think too much is a disease.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground & The Double

  • #18
    Tiffany Madison
    “The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
    Tiffany Madison, Black and White

  • #19
    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

  • #20
    Nathan Filer
    “Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”
    Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

  • #21
    Pete Walker
    “Perfectionism is the unparalleled defense for emotionally abandoned children. The existential unattainability of perfection saves the child from giving up, unless or until, scant success forces him to retreat into the depression of a dissociative disorder, or launches him hyperactively into an incipient conduct disorder. Perfectionism also provides a sense of meaning and direction for the powerless and unsupported child. In the guise of self-control, striving to be perfect offers a simulacrum of a sense of control. Self-control is also safer to pursue because abandoning parents typically reserve their severest punishment for children who are vocal about their negligence.”
    Pete Walker

  • #22
    David M.  Allen
    “Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong. Invalidators let it be known directly or indirectly that their targets views and feelings do not count for anything to anybody at any time or in any way.”
    David M. Allen

  • #23
    “She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.”
    David L. Calof

  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #25
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #26
    “Anxiety is the monster that resides within.”
    Karon Waddell

  • #27
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #28
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.
    But it's a lie.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #29
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #30
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls



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