There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
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I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.
There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.
People get really irritated by mental illness.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.