quotes

"In this powerful new state, in which memory and disgust banded together like some neurological death squad to hack apart serenity, there was, as in the most paralyzing cases of schizophrenia, nothing in the world that did not speak to my anguish. Everything was a malignant reference to what I wished had not happened and to the way I now felt. Everything was mockery."

Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
by Daniel Smith
page 69, second paragraph
hardcover edition published by Simon & Schuster, 2012

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