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Ashley Marie Berry

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in St.Catharines, Canada

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Memoir, Self Help, Humor and Comedy

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Known for her raw but inviting essays, Ashley Marie Berry captures the intricacies of everyday life while living with a flood of mental illnesses. She openly shares her intimate journals from psychiatric stays, moments trying to find the sunlight, and the callous feeling of not wanting to be here anymore. Peeing in foam cups and ruminating for hours about catching pedophilia is just a tiny glimpse into her sometimes manic life. She shares her stories in a very direct way that will only make you feel more compassionate to those who are touched by this light. She wrote Separate Things: A Memoir, to help others like herself, allowing empathy to flow through her words.
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I see the handful of pills you’ve just posted on Facebook, which in turn has been reposted onto your Instagram account just in case anyone missed it.

Six pills are scattered in the palm of your hand. I can see you brushed up the image, maybe added a little light, or a little tint to this snapshot of your life. You’re complaining about having to take pills every day. How these pills are taking over

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“I wondered how you would react when I revealed to you my hidden parts, my ugly parts that don’t do well in the sunlight.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

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“I was at the bottom.
And instead of telling me how sorry you were that I felt this way, you climbed down to the bottom with me, and we were feeling this together.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

tags: bipolar-disorder, depression, mental-health, mental-health-quotes, ocd

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“This isn’t a story about survival because a lot of my pieces have already been lost. Some rebirth has occurred, so I cannot say I’ve survived when I’m not the same person who started this journey.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

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“The tight ball of muck inside me—I opened it. I opened the shame, and it crumbled next to yours. This connection—the one I didn’t think we were going to have—let some of my muck go. And when it left my body, it evaporated into nothing. It had been living in me, but as soon as it was exposed, it disappeared.”
― Ashley Marie Berry, Separate Things: A Memoir

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Our silence spoke of a million different versions of what we were feeling.”
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“We listened to your music, and I saw colors eroding you. You turned into pixels, and the squares fell out of place and morphed into beautiful colors. I was looking up at you as you stared down at me, and you were disentangling all my earlier feelings.”
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