“I’ve often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world. Psychologist R. D. Laing supports this hypothesis in Sanity, Madness and the Family, an account of his investigation into the families of schizophrenics. The common thread that ran through all the families he studied was a deliberate, staunch dismissal of the patient’s perceptions from a very early age. Each of the patients start out with an accurate grasp of reality, which, through meticulous and methodical dismissal, was demolished until the only reality the patient could trust was catatonia.”

-Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie