Mental Illnesses


All the Bright Places
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Bell Jar
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Turtles All the Way Down
Made You Up
Girl, Interrupted
Girl in Pieces
Suicide Notes
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Challenger Deep
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Girl Against the Universe
Every Last Word
Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can. ...more
Nic Sheff, Schizo

Philip K. Dick
… the several sub-types of mental illness should be functioning on this world as classes somewhat like those of ancient India. These people here, the hebephrenics, would be equivalent to the untouchables[*]. The maniacs would be the warrior class, without fear; one of the highest. … … The paranoids – actually paranoiac schizophrenics – would function as the statesman class; they’d be in charge of developing political ideology and social programs – they’d have the overall world view. The simple s ...more
Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon

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