Saturday, July 28, 2018

schizophrene.

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in the pharmacy, i met an exhausted woman whose daughter had been hospitalized for a phobia. when a spoon touched her lips, she had the terrible sensation that it was slipping down her throat. her condition worsened. if anything touched her sari, if one of her children brushed against her thigh, she felt a peristaltic reflex. she felt she was swallowing them too.
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