Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Chilling

“it was the same dynamic that had vexed his family and  'service providers for years'. It was the challenge of a ‘person’ who does not want to be seen as having challenges, who manipulates for advantage, who suffers severe discomforts yet seeks to create discomfort in others, who deals with distress  and disintegration by reaching for ever more forceful means of control, and who harbors, beneath all these attempts at coping and containment, a chilling rage that erupts when they fail.
 This is a quote from a book I am currently reading that is a biography of a young man who ended up killing a young woman because of his mental illness. It is a chillingly close representation of Cheyann's profile. Chilling...

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