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

“Life becomes a kind of elegy for lost moods.”

“Love, like life, is far stranger and more complicated than we are brought up to believe.”

“Tenure is the closest thing to a blood sport that universities can offer.”

"Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground... 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." <3

“it was a very long time until I recognized my mind again, and much longer until I trusted it.”

‪“the more I tried to slow down my thinking, the more I became aware that I couldn’t.”‬

“Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.”

“You are... enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.” - on the inevitable fall from mania.

Yes, exactly.