What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Moby

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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allows us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemmingway, Van Gogh, Robert Schumann, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath…

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

No food will ever hurt you as much as an unhealthy mind.

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Depressed means you need deep rest from the character you've been playing in the world.

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