The difference, dear, is that I would never raise an offspring so inherently daft as to believe that any of their artistic endeavours was the result of any mental failing. How is this glaring fact escaping your attention?

I’m English, dear. Arrogant is our natural state of repose.

‘Tortured’. ‘Nobody gets you.’ Oh darling, could you possibly be more derivative? I’ve got news for you. On average, 90% of the population is tortured Monday-Friday and nobody gets them on the weekend either. The other 10% gets them and tortures them gleefully 7 days a week. Won’t be too long now till you join the rat…

but also if you walk into any given poetry workshop/theatre class you can count on a certain disproportionate amount of the classroom to have mental illness.

Jia, you really are my favourite writer on Jezebel. Excellent work lately.