Sublime

Self-involved

You are constantly monitoring yourself. Your ego will shriek like an alarm you can’t shut off.

specter.

One self disappeared, and a new, more dependent self emerged.

A psychiatrist colleague once told me that patients with psychosis don’t stop believing in their delusions, they just lose interest in them.

inert.

She had become very lonely inside, separate from everyone who did not conform to her standards – even herself.

I realise, suddenly, how this season of illness has rearranged my mind into a library of paranoia.