It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Air Copy Share Image
“We live in a culture where we put our most intimate secrets on the Internet and have no idea who our next-… — Tracy Thompson Community Copy Share Image
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach."… — Tracy Thompson Broken 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… — Tracy Thompson Can do Copy Share Image
Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers,… — Tracy Thompson Actors 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… — Tracy Thompson Anxiety 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… — Tracy Thompson Learning Copy Share Image
Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons. — Tracy Thompson Happens 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… — Tracy Thompson Airplane Copy Share Image
Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it. — Tracy Thompson Injury Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Tracy Thompson Life 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… — Tracy Thompson Depression Copy Share Image
