Mike

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Mike.


Promoting Agricul...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
A Cooperative Spe...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Demanding the Imp...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 12 books that Mike is reading…
Loading...
David Levithan
“i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.”
David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight ball of coke cut with speed. It's fun and it's frightening as hell. Some patients - bipolar type I - experience both extremes; other - bipolar type II - suffer depression almost exclusively. But the "mixed state," the mercurial churning of both high and low, is the most dangerous, the most deadly. Suicide too often results from the impulsive nature and physical speed of psychotic mania coupled with depression's paranoid self-loathing.”
David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

Alyssa Reyans
“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention, this was the message my clouded mind received. To escape the confines of the hospital, I once again disassociated myself from my emotions and numbed myself to the pain ravaging my body and mind. I acted as if nothing was wrong and went back to performing the necessary motions to get me from one day to the next. I existed but I did not live.”
Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

Pyotr Kropotkin
“In The Descent of Man he gave some powerful pages to illustrate its proper, wide sense. He pointed out how, in numberless animal societies, the struggle between separate individuals for the means of existence disappears, how struggle is replaced by co-operation, and how that substitution results in the development of intellectual and moral faculties which secure to the species the best conditions for survival.”
Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution

Alyssa Reyans
“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

41424 Anarchist & Radical Book Club — 2752 members — last activity Jul 13, 2026 06:13AM
This is a group to read and discuss anarchist practice and theory, by gathering a large body of anarchist literature, non-fiction, and theory, as well ...more
year in books
Charlot...
67 books | 147 friends

Mathew
2,886 books | 77 friends

Adam Go...
570 books | 157 friends

Euan Ki...
397 books | 60 friends

Kieran ...
1,224 books | 117 friends

Sanjay L
815 books | 356 friends

Jack Mc...
630 books | 242 friends

Clara
132 books | 24 friends

More friends…
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,875 books — 49,842 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Best Progressive Reads
1,077 books — 733 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Mike

Lists liked by Mike