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“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return to—if the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are all you remember?”
― Kiera Van Gelder

tags: borderline-personality-disorder, mental-illness

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“Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.”
― Lana Del Rey

tags: born-to-die, crazy, dark-fantasy, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, experience, experiences, fantasies, fantasy, free, life, lyrics, me, music, pop, ride, single, song, who, you, yourself

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“This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.”
― Norah Vincent

tags: addiction, anxiety, borderline-personality-disorder, depression, mental-health, mental-illness, ocd, recovery

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