Do you possess a mental illness or does the mental illness possess you?

It is amazing how quickly you get to love these inmates when you start talking to them.  They are so adorable and lovely.  They are the same humans as those that are outside the prison.  It was the most touching experience....

It's important to know what you want. Once I knew what I wanted. I was striving to become a clinician. Now I feel disoriented. I don't know anymore. I don't know where I am going. It's nice to feel wanted and to have options. Amir wants me to continue in academia, he wants me as a PhD student. Jason wants me as a PhD student too.  Gustav sent me ( Read more... )

***
Ты прохладой меня не мучай
И не спрашивай, сколько мне лет.
Одержимый тяжелой падучей,
Я душой стал, как желтый скелет.

Было время, когда из предместья
Я мечтал по-мальчишески - в дым,
Что я буду богат и известен
И что всеми я буду любим.

Да! Богат я, богат с излишком.
Был цилиндр, а теперь его нет.
Лишь осталась одна манишка
С модной ( Read more... )

...I figured - that is probably when you become an expert. When you don't need to prepare for a presentation. When you don't even need to think about it. When you just come out and talk - improvisation. When you feel comfortable talking about a topic without preparation. I felt a bit like Amir - he never prepares, he simply comes out and talks ( Read more... )

"I've known a number of people who became psychologists and who, by doing so, changed significantly. They are analyzing everyone, be it their girlfriend, their wife, their friend or their colleague" (c) Jason ( Read more... )

"Tant que nous nous sommes aimés, nous nous sommes compris sans paroles. Mais on ne s'aime pas toujours. À un moment donné, j'aurais dû trouver les mots qui l'auraient retenue, mais je n'ai pas pu." (c) La Peste , Albert Camus

They fuck you up, your mum and dad ( Read more... )

I keep switching the language of my internal monologue from English to Russian, from Russian to French. All to realize that I am tired of all of them, I am tired of words, tired of hearing noisein my head. Noemie once told me that it should be very annoying to think in words - "you should probably get very tired of constant speach in yourhead", she ( Read more... )

"There is no such thing as complete independence from others or overdependence.  There is only effective or ineffective dependence.  Secure dependence fosters autonomy and self-confidence.  Secure dependence and autonomy are two sides of the same coin, rater than dichotomies.  The more securely connected we are, the more separate and different we ( Read more... )