DSM-IV Codes - Mental Disorders Due To A General Medical Condition Not Elsewhere Classified

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—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

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I tell you what you’ll never really know:
all the medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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