More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
To read the DSM-5 definition of my felt experience is to be cast far from the horror of psychosis and an unbridled mood; it shrink-wraps the bloody circumstance with objectivity until the words are colorless.
I may not be the “appropriate” type of crazy. Sometimes, my mind does fracture, leaving me frightened of poison in my tea or corpses in the parking lot. But then it reassembles, and I am once again a recognizable self.
Our society demands what Chinese poet Chuang Tzu (370–287 BCE) describes in his poem “Active Life”: Produce! Get results! Make money! Make friends! Make changes! Or you will die of despair.
A fictional narrative is considered nuanced when it includes contradictions, but a narrative of trauma is ill-advised to do the same.
prolonged and chronic illness stitches itself into life in a different way than acute illness does.
All I can do is try to write well and pray to die peacefully.
