It was a myth you couldn't function on opiates: shooting up was one thing but for someone like me-jumping at pigeons beating from the sidewalk, afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder practically to the point of spasticity and cerebral palsy-pills were the key to being not only competent, but high-functioning.
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
anxiety, anxiety-attack, competence, dread, drug-addiction, functioning, myth, opiates, ptsd