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“(Lizzie) Maybe she isn’t sure why she is screaming. Maybe it’s something to do. This is a psych ward. She’s been here for months. Nothing happens. Something no one will officially tell you about a long-term psych ward (you might guess): pretty much nothing happens. Roger, with his belief in the Kernberg model, repeats the line that makes Lizzie cringe: It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, which gives the impression of a kind of progress; but really, the days pass one after another with Nothing At All Happening. No sense of production. There’s something radical about this. For many depressives, production has been a vital counterpoint to Depression. I’m Depressed but at least I’m Productive. Or rather: I’m Productive and therefore I’m not Depressed.”

— Suzanne Scanlon, from Promising Young Women

Jan 04, 2020

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