{"text":"On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering.","author":"Frank X. Barron","tags":["compassion-for-others","emotional-distress","emotional-pain","human-suffering","mental-hospital","mental-illness","mental-illness","psychiatric-hospital","suffering","unspeakable"],"id":109663,"author_id":"Frank+X.+Barron"}