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and you’re unable to choose which ones come to the front and which are relegated to “later.”
With more than a handful of people at a time, however, I was in agony—the term “painfully shy” was apt.
I was convinced I didn’t have anything interesting to say.
As I liked to say, the neuroses of first-year students conflicted too much with my own.
I didn’t expect children of my own, so to have these two as part of my life always gave me great joy.
You’ve convinced yourself you’re going to fail, you simply need to stop this!”
a well-respected law journal.
Because how could I reconcile the Lady of the Charts coexisting alongside Elyn and Professor Saks?
he’d virtually relinquished any hope of achieving anything further in his life.
Once again, I’d learned that it wasn’t my stubbornness or discipline that kept the demons at bay; it was the medicine.
Ending the relationship was right, but it made me sad. Not because I was no longer romantic with David, but because of a bigger question: Was there anyone out there for me?
“A psychotic episode is like experiencing trauma,”
It was even better than getting an article published.
use my psychotic thoughts to avoid the ordinary bad feelings that everyone experiences—sadness, rage, garden-variety disappointment.
“Schizophrenia is just a label,” he says, “and it isn’t helpful.”
there are days now I feel almost guilty for feeling so good.
The DSM makes a rough distinction between disorders of thought and disorders of mood.
the schizophrenic mind is not split, but shattered.
not caring about not caring.
Work is both my solace and my mirror—when I lose track of who I am, it is there on the page, to remind me; when I’m away from it, I lose my bearings.
If you are a person with mental illness, the challenge is to find the life that’s right for you.
