“That’s what I’m asking. Why did it take the cancer for you to do that?” “Because it was something real. I’ve got this whole thing in my head that mood disorders are not enough. Bulimia is not enough. Everybody looks at disorders of the mind as, well, there’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot of judgment around.” “But there’s a brain in there; it’s a physical organ. Mood disorder is just as physiological as uterine cancer is.” “I agree with you. But that was my own judgment of it, because I believed what I had been conditioned to believe by my family and by society.
