“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be
found among those who appear to be most normal.
"Many of them are normal because they are so well
adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced
so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop
symptoms as the neurotic does."
They are normal not in what may be called the absolute
sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal
society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of
their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people, living
without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought
not to be adjusted.” -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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