Part of the nightmarish quality of mental illness comes from the fundamental disconnection between the way you experience the world and the way everyone else seems to experience it. You’ll be going through the worst episode of your life and discover that nothing changes for anyone else. They don’t feel bad. They enjoy books, food, or sex. They pray easily. They find comedies funny. And you’ll want to yell at them, “Look around. Do you not see how profoundly terrible and empty this all is? How guilty and inadequate we are? Why aren’t you worried? Why aren’t you panicked? What’s the point of
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