2019/47: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden -- Joanne Greenberg writing as Hannah Green

2019/47: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden -- Joanne Greenberg writing as Hannah Green

In the dark her room was luminous with Yri personages. We never hated you, Lactamaeon said, shining on his hard-ridden horse. The cruelty was for protection! Anterrabae said in antiphon, waving a sheaf of sparks in his hand.
We came in the era of dryness and the death of hope, called Lactamaeon.
We came with gifts, said Anterrabae. When you were laughing nowhere else, you were laughing with us. [p. 162]

I first read this in my teens and was vastly moved by it. Deborah, the protagonist, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is treated by psychoanalyst Dr Fried. Deborah's mental illness involves a complex fantasy world she calls Yr, ( no spoilers )