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Psychiatry has come a long way, into the spiritual realm. Into energies. There are deniers, certainly, but they all work for big oil. Now tell me about your most recent dreams.
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Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?""I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero.""A family friend?""She took care of me after my mother died," I said. Who hadn't heard of Whoopi Goldberg?
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His heart growled like a trapped animal, brooding and useless.
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…every time I lay down in that supply closet I went straight into black emptiness, an infinite space of nothingness. I was neither scared nor elated in that space. I had no visions. I had no ideas. If I had a distinct thought, I would hear it, and the sound of it would echo and echo until it got absorbed by the darkness and disappeared. There was no response necessary. No inane conversation with myself. It was peaceful.
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And yet I was aware of the nothingness. I was awake in the sleep, somehow. I felt good. Almost happy.
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I lay awake for a long time. It was like sitting in a cinema after the lights go down, waiting for the previews to begin. But nothing was happening. I regretted the coffee.
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Education is directly proportional to anxiety . . .
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The 'side effects and warnings' on the Internet were discouraging, and anxieties over them amplified the volume of my thoughts, which was the exact opposite of what I hoped the pills would do.
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I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick.
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