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“Mental exhaustion had taken a long, terrible toll, but, strangely, it was only in feeling well, energetic, and high-spirited again that I had any…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing-all classic. Phase One signs of deliria.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and…

— David Rakoff

“Something has happened to me, I can't doubt it any more. It came as an illness does, not like an ordinary certainty, not like…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Too much had happened already. Mental and emotional exhaustion had completely taken over my life lately, and today had pushed me to the brink…

— Catherine Gayle

“Anticipating this loss had a way of refining memory, filing it down to the purest, rawest form of itself. My clouded perceptions grew clearer.…

— Wendy Paine Miller

“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so acutely before.…

— Sarah Hall

“No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that…

— Aimee Bender

“He found himself struck by a sudden fear that something might happen to him in the future that would destroy his memory. Some kind…

— Christa Faust

“reminding yourself that everything eventually passes is a powerful trick to aid you in enduring the discomfort. I”

— Martin Meadows

“I think there are certain unimpeded passages, that this is registering in my brain somewhere where the drugs and the bugs don’t reach. There’s…

— Thomas Moran

“This was happening to me more often lately: suddenly, pieces of the puzzle were gone—bites out of time, empty moments during which my thoughts…

— Herman Koch