On a Quest for Self-Retrieval

Mental illness is morally neutral. Care tasks are morally neutral. Medications are morally neutral.

(I think I might have been a complex child. In fact, I think all children are far more complex than adults give them credit for being. I remember those shorts. I thought they were very fancy.)

I waited five months for the appointment with a psychiatrist after writing a letter to my family doctor explaining how difficult I was finding life at that moment.…