Suzanne Scanlon, From "Committed: On Meaning And Madwomen," Published In 2024

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

June 4, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

I feel like neither a child nor an adult. I am a botched, failed creature, combining the worst qualities of each. All the helplessness and dependency of a child, with the cynicism and despair of an adult. My mind is stunted, malformed. My body outgrew me and now I wield it clumsily, hitting others with my overgrown arms as I stumble over my own feet. "I am sorry," I say, "But I was treated as something less than human and that is what I've become."

It’s never okay to lock a headmate away, never. They could be the worst person in the world, you still shouldn’t lock them away. There’s a difference between keeping headmates away from eachother and taking away someone’s privacy, free will and connections. You are abandoning that headmate, you are telling them that they are not worth helping, that they don’t deserve to get better. If talking it out doesn’t work for them there are other options, I’d recommend giving them their own space to speak their mind without threat of mistreatment for it, for starters. If someone really doesn’t want help don’t force it on them, just let them know it’s always an option and leave it at that. -Ange

I'm so sorry I hurt you.. it feels like swallowing glass every time I think it was never your fault.

The intimacy of “How did you know that?”

“because I know you.”