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Andrea 🌄's avatar

This is so vulnerable and real! I’m glad you were able to survive. There is a thin line between creativity and madness!

The stranger's avatar

It is 🫂

I am still surviving and finding ways to survive.

It is a thing Line in fact. I keep going back on forth sadly one day I might cross forever 😭

Thank you for sitting with this Andrea ♥️

Adrião Pereira da Cunha's avatar

This text humanises madness as difference, showing how society punishes what it cannot understand.

The narrator’s “flow of ideas” becomes a crime, judged by those who fear imagination and grief.

Labels like schizophrenic or bipolar are revealed as cages, stripping dignity instead of offering care.

The forced admission, sedation, and loss of belongings humanise the violence of silencing inner voices.

Yet within confinement, solidarity blooms others who share the same rush of thought and feeling.

In that communion, the so‑called “crazy” discover their own humanity, laughter becoming resistance.

The irony is piercing: those outside, captive to rigid illusions, are the truly imprisoned.

The story humanises madness as a mirror, exposing society’s fear of vulnerability and difference.

Connection inside the “facility” becomes a sanctuary, where stigma dissolves into shared presence.

Ultimately, it insists that true sanity lies not in conformity but in compassion and communion.

The stranger's avatar

This is a deep and profound description of what the text tries to convey. Thank you for deeply reading it and offer your reflections!

Dipti  Vyas's avatar

Your piece is bold and emotionally charged, vividly exploring the tension between individuality and societal norms. It highlights how difference is often pathologized, yet the shift from confusion and captivity to finding refuge among like-minded others is striking and thought-provoking. Overall, it’s a poignant, unsettling reflection on perception, “normalcy,” and the ways society mislabels what it doesn’t understand.

Una Rouquine's avatar

How hard it is to fight carrying a torch of truths against a force convinced that it’s the only truth. This piece reflects that desire to speak up, when forced to comply the heart still fights for its kindered souls. Strong and deep words by you dear friend ❤️‍🔥

The stranger's avatar

Love how you articulated this 🫶🏾

Such a beautiful describtion ♥️

Thank you my dear 🫶🏾

Una Rouquine's avatar

My pleasure💌💗

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🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Regolith's avatar

Thank you for sharing such a deeply raw personal story. Great to hear your voice on here too! Amazing piece of writing and great narration!! How can you speak so many languages!!

The stranger's avatar

thank you for reading and witnessing this :) well to survive we had to twist our tongues in differnt ways lol

Priya Hinduja's avatar

This was very creative and interesting! ❤️❤️

The stranger's avatar

Thank you Priya ♥️ appreciate it!

You can check the personal story behind it in the subscribers chat 🐱

Priya Hinduja's avatar

Sure!

The stranger's avatar

That's a deep analysis showing your insight about the matter ..

Thank you for your words :)