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What is it like to have a broken mind? Part 2

become a now or never thing. I expected something to happen – maybe the sky would split in two and all the answers would fall upon my head. Maybe someone would listen – maybe now, after all this Therapy I could actually START. I had not been talking about what really mattered, I realised. Maybe this would be the beginning of it that I had been looking for. My last session was with the young woman ...

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What is it like to have a broken mind?

What is it like to have a broken mind?

 

I can only tell you what it’s like to have my broken one – I can’t tell you what it’s like in someone else’s. Our minds break in different ways – they crack in places so personal to ourselves that I would never presume to know what is happening inside other minds.

I think I can say, with certainty that we are all survivors. Every day is a day that ...

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