And I’m thinking what a roller coaster mental illness is. Not just for the patient, but for everyone else involved. It’s a sentence that you’re given, and it’s a life sentence. And there’s all the things that you have to go through: the doctors, the drugs, the violent outbursts, the destruction (literally and emotionally), the police coming to your house, the shame that you live with. It just goes on and on. It’s not like those movies like A Beautiful Mind where someone reaches out and says, “All you need is love.” You know? Love is a given, but it’s a war of attrition. It really is. It’s a
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