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Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Children Coping Family Loss Memories Mental Illness Neglect Pain

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Crisis Family Fear Loss Mental Illness Safety

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Amber Hummingbird Memory

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Memories Memory

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Memory Memory Loss Mental Illness

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Brain Memories

What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears, gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Abandonment Family Fear Mental Illness

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Schizophrenia Secrets

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Crisis Hostage Mental Health
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