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“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interestâ€� and ‘attentionâ€�, so long as we focus on the ‘singular momentsâ€� and the ‘appealing detailsâ€� in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I'm used to functioning in pain, asshole. Are you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools in working my way through our social obligations. I believed that playing the roles of wife and mother were the least I could do to help support Tom's career.
During the day, I was a puzzle with innumerable pieces. One piece made my family a nourishing breakfast. Another piece ferried the kids to school and to soccer practice. A third piece managed to trip to the grocery store. There was also a piece that wanted to sleep for eighteen hours a day and the piece that woke up shaking from yet another nightmare. And there was the piece that attended business functions and actually fooled people into thinking I might have something constructive to offer.
I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair. A self-deprecating voice inside told me I had no chance of getting better. I lived in an emotional black hole.
p20-21, talking about dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder).”
― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“To get Windows 10 reliable, I had to lobotomise the installed software and USB devices.”
― Steven Magee

“Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“COVID-19 has greatly increased the numbers of people that have lost their mental functioning skills.”
― Steven Magee

“Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

“Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead to such a state, you need to look no further for a reason to get rid of them.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones

“I advise people not to research radiation unless they are prepared to take the risks to their own health and mental functioning that the various forms of radiation are known to present to the human.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of workers.”
― Steven Magee

“Some of my parts were hard workers. My well developed memory helped me remember people: their names and positions and what they said during meetings. Rather than making me seem checked out, my dissociation made me seem calm and collected. In fact, the general dissociative state I was always in helped me function very well. I collected information, interacted on a personal and professional level, and was quite adept at managing most tasks in my life from this superficially numb and calm place. Most people, including me, didn't notice. This way of being and interacting was really all I knew.”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“As I increased the levels of the sex hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) using supplements, I exhibited a major response to it at 75mg daily. My face felt like it was constantly blushing, even though it was not, and my mental functioning degraded at the same time. I continued to take DHEA and after a few weeks these effects subsided.”
― Steven Magee

“USA citizens assassinating armed police officers is symptomatic of a poorly functioning government.”
― Steven Magee

“When my brain functioning was at its worst, I was getting lost in my own neighborhood where I had lived for years.”
― Steven Magee

“The second decade in high altitude professional astronomy is a very risky time for the biological functioning of a summit observatory worker.”
― Steven Magee

“It was 2008, I was age thirty eight and fighting chronic fatigue and mental functioning issues daily. Coffee was my best friend! But the coffee did not fix me, it just helped perk me up to get me to work daily. I was living the “American Dreamâ€�. I had my green card work visa, I was a resident of the USA and I could work for any employer I wanted to! But I felt lousy every day. Getting out of bed was hard after a poor night of sleep.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Poorly functioning solar power systems were around when I worked in the field.”
― Steven Magee

“When I pay my taxes, I expect an excellent functioning police department to be the outcome.”
― Steven Magee

“He had the suspicion that cogs were spinning, the universe beyond his walls was functioning and he was not, but he had no choice.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream