Status Updates From Tell Me I'm Here

back to the library bc it is overdue (i am criminal). and the cycle continues

"A major reason for Jonathon's slide was that he has again stopped taking his medication/But the mind that is malfunctioning is the same mind that has to know it needs help/he was not psychotic enough to be involuntarily committed, and this has been a major flaw in mental-health legislation/you watch someone you love becoming psychotic but you can do nothing until they are so ill they are a danger to themselves"

"the history of mental illness helps to explain the weight of oppression that people with the illness have inherited, and still struggle against. it also lets us see how the way we view an illness affects the way we treat it, and how, in turn, this affects its outcome."

"one of the fantasies i carried into adult life was that the house i had grown up in, in England, had a mother, a father, and a large kitchen with homemade bread on a scrubbed table and a large pot of soup on the stove. the soul searches for myths to nourish it . . . then one day . . . I realised that my own childhood was about as far from the norm as the norm is from Mills and Boon."

already shed a tear