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This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. It’s part memoir about life in the New York State Psychiatric Hospital in the 90s—caught in the shift from Freudian psychoanalysis to the big pharma-influenced biomedical model, part analysis of how women (in particular) are taught to be sick when they need to receive care, not provide it, and part love letter to the madwomen writers from all over. & the writing is just fantastic.
Mar 4, 2025
a book you have to sit silently for an hour after reading and there's no room for thoughts outside this book. the perfect representation of being a poster but also life and how much it hurts.
Jan 22, 2024
A book I'm currently reading which hollers in your face the lack of empathy for women not that many years ago, which is still underlying the way we currently attend to our understanding and treatment for us. "A way of caring about sentences of craft-- about form or content-- is another way of saying, Please listen to my story. To sit in a circle. To say come sit quietly in this room with us," Scanlon writes.
Sep 30, 2024
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One thing about me is I love to leave
Apr 12, 2024
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When you’re in a slump, you’re in a slump.
Let yourself feel things. The good and the bad. I welcome them like a visitor and I invite them at the pretend dinner table in my head and get to know them, and I try not to ask them why they’re here. Why I feel things. I just let them be. Know that this will pass, just like a person visiting for a few nights and I try not to hold on to them when they’re ready to leave (yes those feelings will pass). Sounds very cliché but they do.
From my experience, the longer I fight the sadness/depression/slump, the longer it stays. I’ve learned just to take it day by day. This wouldn’t be possible without months of therapy where it was revealed to me that I’ve been so hard on myself almost my entire life.
I also meditate every night for 15-20 minutes. I take this activity so seriously, just a few minutes to close my eyes and release the tension I’ve felt the whole day. I love staying still. I love to close my eyes and think of nothing. My drive will come back.
What also helps (for me) is taking a few minutes a day to go outside and letting the sun touch my skin. It feels so good. Listen to the birds. Listen to the traffic. Just observe your surroundings and remember that there is life outside you and you are a part of something big and eventually you get inspired by something. May it be small or big. It will come back to you.
Be gentle and kind to yourself <3
Apr 25, 2024
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Solves just about anything
Dec 25, 2024