Status Updates From Madness Made Me: A Memoir

«…if you’ve never been starved of privilege, you can’t understand how powerful it is.»

«I am burning. - all the life inn me blazing out from the core of me is getting stuck - I can feel it trying to burn through my skin. I am almost on fire»

«Mental health business is the only business in the world where the customer is always wrong»

«The doctor would say to me, «you’re looking well today». I’d say, «I feel terrible», He’d say, «No you don’t.» s.140

«I wondered why the whole community wasn’t outraged by the way people had been treated in the mental health system. (…) Maybe they thought it was OK because mad people weren’t full members of the human race.» s. 144

«My madness took me to places I had never been. It showed me the universe without its clothes. It stripped my mind of all its chattels. It rubbed my nose in the divine»

«What is the difference between a psychotically hypoxic climber at 8000 meters and a psychotically suicidal person at sea level?»

«Gradually subsided over two or three years like a ball the bounces less each time it hits the ground.»

Wow.