Turtles All The Way Down Ocd Quotes

Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don't.

Illness is a story told in the past tense.

In job interviews they’d ask me, What’s your greatest weakness? and I’d explain that I’ll probably spend a good portion of the workday terrorized by thoughts I’m forced to think, possessed by a nameless and formless demon, so if that’s going to be an issue, you might not want to hire me.

There is something intensely weird and upsetting about the notion that you can only become yourself by ingesting a medication that changes your self.

If I'd been the author, I would've stopped thinking about my microbiome. I would've told Daisy how much I liked her idea for Mychal's art project, and I would've told her that I did remember Davis Pickett, that I remembered being eleven and carrying a vague but constant fear. I would've told her that I remembered once at camp lying next to Davis on the edge of a dock, our legs dangling over, our backs against the rough-hewn planks of wood, staring together up at a cloudless summer sky. I wouldv'e told her that Davis and I never talked much, or even looked at each other, but it didn't mater, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

Sweating 'you already have it.' nothing hurts like this 'you’ve already got it.' stop please God stop 'you’ll never be free of this.' you’ll never be free of this. 'you’ll never get your self back.' you’ll never get your self back 'do you want to die of this' do you want to die of this because you will' youwillyouwillyouwillyou willyouwill.