A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the …

- Tracy Thompson

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or i…

- Tracy Thompson

Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl…

- Tracy Thompson

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

- Tracy Thompson

The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it st…

- Tracy Thompson

I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never hav…

- Tracy Thompson

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

- Tracy Thompson

Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actor…

- Tracy Thompson

I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed …

- Tracy Thompson