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There is no restitution for people like us, no return to days when our bodies were unscathed, our innocence intact. Recovery isn’t a gentle self-care spree that restores you to a pre-illness state. Though the word may suggest otherwise,
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“There is no restitution for people like us, no return to days when our bodies were unscathed, our innocence intact. Recovery isn’t a gentle self-care spree that restores you to a pre-illness state. Though the word may suggest otherwise, recovery is not about salvaging the old at all. It’s about accepting that you must forsake a familiar self forever, in favor of one that is being newly born. It is an act of brute, terrifying discovery.”
― Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
― Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
“The syndrome acquired the name Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after Jakob incorrectly gave credit to a fellow German scientist, Hans Creutzfeldt, who Jakob felt had described a similar case a few years earlier. Creutzfeldt’s case turned out to be a different disease—and the pairing ended up being particularly unfortunate, since Jakob was Jewish and Creutzfeldt likely had ties to the Nazi regime—but the name stuck.”
― A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
― A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
Elsa’s 2025 Year in Books
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