I'm reading Esmé Weijun Wang's stellar book of essays
The Collected Schizophrenias. A selection of quotes:
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Some people dislike diagnoses, disagreeably calling them, boxes and labels, but I've always found comfort in preexisting conditions; I like to know that I'm not pioneering an inexplicable experience.
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A fictional narrative is considered nuanced when it includes contradictions, but a narrative of trauma is ill-advised to do the same.
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...a primary feature of the experience of staying in a psychiatric hospital is that you will not be believed about anything. A corollary to this feature: things will be believed about you that are not at all true.
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