
“It didn't make me crazy. It made me unbearably anxious, preoccupied indignant and exhausted. I was faced with either surrendering my freedom in advance, or risking loosing it in the worst ways imaginable. One thing that makes people crazy is being told that the experiences they have did not actually happen. That the circumstances that hem them in are imaginary. That the problems are all in their head, and that if they are distressed, it is a sign of their failure. When success would be to shut up or to cease to know what they know. Out of this unbearable predicament come the rebels who choose failure and risk and the prisoners who choose compliance.”
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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