Lauren Slater Quotes

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• The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot…
• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on…
• Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.
• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our…
• Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we sometimes have of…
• Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe…
• Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting,…
• I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I…
• Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical…

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