# Mental Illness Doesn’t Make You Special ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article2.74d541386bbf.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Freddie deBoer]] - Full Title: Mental Illness Doesn’t Make You Special - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Tags: [[Favorites]] - URL: https://unherd.com/2022/04/mental-illness-doesnt-make-you-special/ - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > To accept that there is no sense in which her pain makes her deeper or more real or more beautiful than others, that in fact the pain of mental illness reliably makes us more selfish, more self-pitying, more destructive, and more pathetic. To understand that and to accept it and to quietly go about life trying to maintain peace and dignity is, I think, the best possible path for those with mental illness to walk.