Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

by Mark Vonnegut Md

Luck and circumstances make us as different from who we might have been as cats are from dogs and birds are from bugs.

Even most so-called accidents could be studied like diseases with various risk factors: teen gun violence required a gun, a grudge, alcohol, and impoverished future prospects. Take away the preconditions and the harm stops.

Maybe I just had to learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, with being scared out of my mind, and to let it go past like it wasn’t about me.

“The grace of God won’t take you where the grace of God can’t keep you.”

The real root of all evil is how hard it is to do good.