Lauren Smith’s Reviews > An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness > Status Update

Meds work but there's 'the voice of upbringing that said one should be able to handle everything by oneself'.

'looking back over the wreckage brought about by this ... blind stupidity and pride, I now wonder, What on earth had I been thinking? I had also been taught to think for myself. Why, then, didn't I question these rigid, irrelevant notions of self-reliance? Why didn't I see how absurd my defiance really was?'