When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

I’m broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think...

LOVE is the most powerful human force!! Let’s practice it to improve the fate of humanity!First self love,then love to others and our environment.LOVE is humble,patient,humble patient,charming,it’s wonderful feeling!

Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave the house because you know everyone is judging you. Where you cant even ask for directions in...

you will perhaps missthe part of you that is gonebut do not fear:all is for the best in the worldand soon you will not realize it is gone:you have either forgotten it entirely orit has...

Depression is easy to wallow in and hard to fight against, but if you just give in to it completely it’s a downward spiral. You skip going to class because you’re feeling depressed, then you...

The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.

If onlys.

Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I...

We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.

Pause, breathe, and lift, undefined, what is possible. Let the feeling of celebration come upon you, even if you do not comprehend cerebral reasons to justify it. For from that center, it will generate its...

One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life’s journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful...