Status Updates From An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir o...

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. But, always, it is where I have believed—or have learned to believe—that I might someday be able to contend with all of this.

"Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. But, always, it is where I have believed—or have learned to believe—that I might someday be able to contend with all of this."

(Regarding having mental illness while also being a practicing clinician):
The real dangers of course come about from those clinicians who are hesitant to seek out psychiatric treatment. Left untreated or unsupervised, many become ill, endangering not only their own lives, but the lives of others. Most physicians suicides are due to depression or bipolar, both of which are imminently treatable.

No amount of love can cure madness. Love can help, can make the pain more bearable. Madness on the other hand can and often does kill love through its mistrustfulness, unrelenting pessimism, discontents, erratic behavior, and, especially, through its savage moods.