{"quotes":[{"text":"But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.","author":"Simmone Howell","tags":["defective","girl","girl-defective","simmone-howell","sky"],"id":84083,"author_id":"Simmone+Howell"},{"text":"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["computers","cost","defective","digital","economy","effective","efficiency","efficient","equipment","error","error-code","future","gadgets","imperfect","labor","long-run","machine","machinery","machines","man","market","men","perfect","reliability","reliable","short-run","tech","technology","work"],"id":92741,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"~~You are not alone~~ No, really. Literally. Maybe you have always known (or suspected) this. Maybe this news is shocking, baffling, dismaying, even unbelievable to you. Despite what you might believe or may have been told about yourself, you are not just 'moody'. Nor are you crazy or defective or possessed. You have what is commonly called 'multiple personalities'.","author":"A.T.W.","tags":["crazy","defective","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health","mental-illness","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","possessed","self-stigma"],"id":353482,"author_id":"A.T.W."},{"text":"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["defective","defective-humans","depression","depression-stories","drugs","prozac","psychiatric-drugs","shame","treatment"],"id":360060,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}