I feel like I'd have to go with failure to understand mental illness - how serious it is. Because "dangerous" could be exactly the right word for it.
Phrases stick with me from the books I've read. A woman who spent thousands of dollars while manic and tried to kill herself while in a mixed state (mania + depression), told by a relative she shouldn't "lithiumize" away her feelings. Coming home after a hospitalization for anorexia, a girl looked in the mirror and, trying to convince herself, said, "Maybe I'm not that fat"; her mother responded, "Well, I wouldn't go that far."
A girl going through depression told me once, "I'm sick, and I'm desperate to be taken as seriously and with the same patience and kindness as a sick person would."
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Date: 2009-11-15 03:43 pm (UTC)Phrases stick with me from the books I've read. A woman who spent thousands of dollars while manic and tried to kill herself while in a mixed state (mania + depression), told by a relative she shouldn't "lithiumize" away her feelings. Coming home after a hospitalization for anorexia, a girl looked in the mirror and, trying to convince herself, said, "Maybe I'm not that fat"; her mother responded, "Well, I wouldn't go that far."
A girl going through depression told me once, "I'm sick, and I'm desperate to be taken as seriously and with the same patience and kindness as a sick person would."