it is also true that the lines between our freedom and the power of a mental illness are murky at best. At the point of contact with the world, when our feet hit the floor, all questions of agency become inconsequential. Freedom and determinism have no bearing or relevance. They belong to a theoretical way of understanding the world, which has its place, but in practice, no person knows where their agency ends. With few exceptions, we experience each moment as if we have a choice of how we will act. Even when our minds suffocate us with hopelessness and we feel unable to move, we still
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