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Lexie Carroll
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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.
— Mar 25, 2026 09:51AM
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Lexie Carroll
is 91% done
(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.
— Mar 25, 2026 05:18PM
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.
Lexie Carroll
is 55% done
Depression’s typical presentation is more consistent with societal expectations of women’s behaviors: passive, sensitive, dependent & with limited aspirations.
Manic sessions however seem more the provenance of men: restless, fiery, aggressive visionary & impatient with the status quo. Anger & irritability in men is more tolerated & understandable- leaders are allowed to be more temperamental.
— Mar 18, 2026 04:13PM
Manic sessions however seem more the provenance of men: restless, fiery, aggressive visionary & impatient with the status quo. Anger & irritability in men is more tolerated & understandable- leaders are allowed to be more temperamental.
