Never really happened...

Am I just a victim of my circumstances?
Or are my circumstances
just the victims of all my wrong decisions?

- Mitch Toomey

Cure for pain...

We [doctors] do not recognize patients’ inner lives; maybe because we do not acknowledge our own... Most of us are dealing drugs because we don’t know what else to do. 

- Arthur Janov

(detail from Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic")