A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.

I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.