Top 19 Susannah Cahalan Quotes
#1. Though my behavior was worsening day by day, it was still difficult for her to reconcile the old image that she had of her daughter as trustworthy, hard working, and independent with the new, unpredictable, and dangerous one.
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#3. I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: "Because I love you, and I wanted to, and I knew you were in there." No matter how damaged I had been, he had loved me enough to still see me somewhere inside.
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#4. It just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?
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#5. We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.
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#7. Someone once asked, "If you could take it all back, would you?"
At the time I didn't know. Now I do. I wouldn't take that terrible experience back for anything in the world. Too much light has come out of my darkness.
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#8. The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.
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#9. How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has.
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#10. Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless).
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#11. Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.
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#12. Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
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#13. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?
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#15. The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B
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#16. You have to look backward to see the future, he often said to his residents.
stated by Dr Najjar. So true in many settings
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#17. Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.
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#19. When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly.
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