Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness
Recently, a friend posed a question: If there were a pill I could take that would instantly cure me, would I take it? The poet Rainer Maria Rilke was offered psychoanalysis. He declined, saying, “Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” My psychosis, on the other hand, is a waking nightmare in which my devils are so terrifying that all my angels have already fled. So would I take the pill? In an instant.
∞ | 8:11 am | 11Jul2012 | 63♥
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Reminds me of Witty Ticcy Ray from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
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There. Right there. Why I want to be a psychiatrist in 14 minutes. “There are no schizophrenics. There are people with...
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