“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share
“We live in a culture where we put our most intimate secrets on the Internet and have no idea who our next- door neighbors are, where we labor in cubicles all day and go home at night to update our Facebook page. What we lack- what most of us instinctively know we are missing, what makes so many of us… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never have thought of it as an option. It was the perceived lack of options-the final, unacceptable solution to a grave and insoluble dilemma. I had always thought of it… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share
Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists,… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“The brain is the only organ that tries to make sense of its pain. It is as if the bone were trying to understand… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons. — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
