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Mind pain is what I can’t figure out. It’s like when you throw body, heart, and soul pain into a blender, then you add a cup of disgust at all that you are, at all that you’ve become, at all that you will ever be.
“The one about how mental illness makes people smart. It lets us see a part of life that others don’t see.”
“Unreal, as in here it’s not like it is out there? Here you’re insulated somehow?”
mentals have a kind of intelligence that non-mentals don’t have. That the stuff that happens in our heads gives us an ability to see what non-mentals can’t or won’t.”
“Medication won’t make you like your life. It might help you accept the things you cannot change, and maybe even give you the energy to change the things you can, to paraphrase an old prayer. But to like your life, you’re going to need more than medication.”
“There’s things you see when you’re depressed that you don’t see otherwise. You see how silly the world is sometimes and the craziness around you. You see all the things that people strive for, like money and success and popularity, and you realize that those things don’t make us happy.”
Sauerkraut reminded me of those days when every second dripped with bitterness.
always like it when Dr. Desai asks a question to which she already knows the answer. Instead of telling me what she knows, she wants me to discover it in the process of saying it out loud.
