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The myth of mental illness
I read up a lot about mental illness, mostly because most of my life I was feeling like I was on the verge of going crazy. Except, I could never quite go completely over the abyss, which I often thought … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, anxiety, Complex-PTSD, depression, existential depression, Madness, Moods, Motherhood, The Myth of Mental Illness
Tagged Kazmirez Dabrowski, Madness, R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz
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