Nikki

“And, over time, urban-industrialized society would become increasingly responsible for controlling people whose differences might have been tolerated at home.21”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“In some ways, my moods did and did not exist. People said that you could will a mood into being or will it away. Just think positively. But I never felt that way. My moods were their own entities, even if no one could understand why they were there. That was what made me scared of feelings. I realized now what I had to do, in spite of what others said, was not try to change a mood but surrender to it. I had to surrender to whatever feelings arrived and in doing so I could maybe ride them, floating on the waves. I decided I was going to surrender.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“In Buddhism, the term hungry ghost refers to the person whose appetite exceeds their capacity for satisfaction. The visual of a hungry ghost is a Buddha-ghost with a tiny mouth and an enormous stomach. They’re greedy, starved for money, sex, drugs, power, status, all the good stuff. More is never enough.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“Nor were there insane asylums, just general asylums for the lawless and unproductive. Some of the first insanity laws in Italy and England during the nineteenth century stipulated that harmless mentally ill patients should live with their families, even if it meant they were confined to a small outbuilding or chained to a tree.17”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness