Denny

“Home! What a strange word. Once I thought nothing of it, but I have learned all too well the power and succor that it can conjure when one has been taken away from it.”
― Alexandria V. Nolan, Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass: A Novel of the Great Lakes

“Philippe was now the Lake of the Woods Brigade leader,”
― Alexandria V. Nolan, Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass: A Novel of the Great Lakes

“Correspondingly, despite many decades of expensive and exhaustive research, no specific biological markers or mechanisms have ever been reliably linked with diagnostic labels like schizophrenia or depression, a fact recently acknowledged in the United States by the National Institute of Mental Health.26 Indeed, NIMH announced its intention to “reorient” away from existing psychiatric diagnoses because of their invalidity, preferring to focus on classifications based on genetics and neurobiology (despite the acknowledgement that there is still insufficient data to develop such a system).”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head

“I decided that my mind, body, and spirit had worked together to craft the best they could with limited resources, and to see myself as a helpless victim of chronic “mental illness” was merely adding insult to injury.”
― Eleanor Longden, Learning from the Voices in My Head