I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'
Never tell a crazy person he’s crazy.
Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?
If Myrnin pokes his crazy head up before then, call me and try to keep him, you know, stable.' 'Is he UNstable?' 'I don't know, how can I tell? You're the crazy whisperer!' She had a point. Claire couldn't help but smile about that.
With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.
I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.
It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.
