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Richard Siken
“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”
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“In the life cycle of an intense emotion, if it isn't acted upon, it eventually peaks and then decreases. But as Dr. Linehan explains, people with BPD have a different physiological experience with this process because of three key biological vulnerabilities (1993a): First, we're highly sensitive to emotional stimuli (meaning we experience social dynamics, the environment, and our own inner states with an acuteness similar to having exposed nerve endings). Second, we respond more intensely and much more quickly, than other people. And third, we don't 'come down' from our emotions for a long time. One the nerves have been touched, the sensations keep peaking. Shock waves of emotion that might pass through others in minutes keep cresting in us for hours, sometimes days.”
Kiera Van Gelder

William Styron
“The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.”
William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Susanna Kaysen
“I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.”
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Claudia Rankine
“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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