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There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, <..>. I had all the characteristics of a human being flesh, blood, skin, hair-but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposetul erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning.
— Apr 11, 2026 07:20AM
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Greta
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life played out as a sitcom, a blank canvas that reconfigures itself into a soap opera. It's an isolation ward that serves only to expose my own severely impaired capacity to feel. I am at its center, out of season, and no one ever asks me for any identification.
— Apr 11, 2026 01:41PM
Greta
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‘…and when she sees me, standing over her, naked, I can imagine that my virtual absence of humanity fills her with mind-bending horror.’
— Apr 11, 2026 01:02PM
Greta
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‘Life remained a blank canvas, a cliché, a soap opera. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impeding slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.’
— Apr 11, 2026 07:08AM
Greta
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‘And though it has been in no way a romantic evening, she embraces me and this time emanates a warmth I’m not familiar with. I am so used to imagining everything happening the way it occurs in movies, visualizing things falling somehow into shape of events on a screen, that I almost hear the swelling of an orchestra can almost hallucinate the camera panning low around us, fireworks bursting in slow motion…’
— Apr 11, 2026 05:48AM
Greta
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‘A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating’
— Apr 11, 2026 05:41AM
Greta
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‘Since it’s impossible in the world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves’
— Apr 11, 2026 05:12AM
Greta
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‘’Lunch at Hubert’s becomes a permanent hallucination in which I find myself dreaming while still awake’’
— Apr 08, 2026 11:17AM