The Awareness Of The Damage Done By

Confidentiality Is An Ancient And Well-warranted Social Value.

I Think People Don't Understand How Intimately Tied Suicide Is To Mental Illness, Particularly To Depressive Illness And Bipolar Illness.

Every Seventeen Minutes In America, Someone Commits Suicide. Mostly, I Have Been Impressed By How Little Value Our Society Puts On Saving The Lives Of Those Who Are In Such Despair As To Want To End Them. It Is A Societal Illusion That Suicide Is Rare. It Is Not.

No Pill Can Help Me Deal With The Problem Of Not Wanting To Take Pills; Likewise, No Amount Of Psychotherapy Alone Can Prevent My Manias And Depressions. I Need Both. It Is An Odd Thing, Owing Life To Pills, One's Own Quirks And Tenacities, And This Unique, Strange, And Ultimately Profound Relationship Called Psychotherapy

Everything Previously Moving With The Grain Is Now Against - You Are Irritable, Angry, Frightened, Uncontrollable, And Enmeshed Totally In The Blackest Caves Of The Mind. You Never Knew Those Caves Were There. It Will Never End, For Madness Carves Its Own Reality.