In the mirror I stand, an injured deer in headlights, or maybe high beams, judging by the way my eyes water. I measure my wrists with my fingers, and I clutch at my rib cage,...

The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false hopes. It would be nice to defeat your depression in ten easy steps, but rarely is it so...

It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

I wasn’t going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I’d feel ashamed, which meant I’d get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did...

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is...

Hiding and waitingFor the worst Or the end

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Depression is an imagery of our heart’s sickness.

If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.

Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to...

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Viele seiner kriminellen Bekannten […] verlachten Depressionen als Weiberkrankheiten, Wohlstandswehwehchen, die nur Schwule und Frauen bekamen. Er beneidete sie darum, dass sie die Wahrheit nicht kannten.Eine echte Depression war wie ein Schwamm, den man unter...

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the world out there. There really is. It really does exist. Regardless of how...

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

La tristesse durera toujours.[The sadness will last forever.]

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?You seem to ask.I make a sharp reply,Then clean my stick. I’m glad I can’t...

…Alright, Mandy Valems,” Alecto agreed.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

A friend called the other day.’How are you?’ she said.The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue. It was only eleven in the morning but I had been awake since three twenty. I was...

the evil thing is inside, not out.

If two people who love each other Ares soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you..

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

I’m still not able to sleep on her side of the bed” I faked a smile.

Serotonin, the “feel-good” brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.

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...

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, “Never real and always true,” and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know...

The most incredible architectureIs the architecture of Self,which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding...

Will stared down at his hands. “My whole life wrecked, destroyed…” “You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wrecked a life you’ve barely lived.

I don’t feel strong anymoreI feel like falling to my knees.Things aren’t the way they were before,They’re not the way they’re supposed to be.

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself...

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

Sufría menos con un dolor real y físico que con el temor de agonía de que volviera la conciencia y me arrebataran la copa del olvido que la muerte me brindaba.

At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there...

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

J’ai des papillons noirs tous les jours (I have black butterflies every day)

Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them “god for us” or “bad for us.” The event is only an event. It’s how we treat...

How strange! This bed on which I shall lie has been slept on by more than one dying man, but today it does not repel me! Who knows what corpses have lain on it and...

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures...

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet...

You go to bed different… tossing and turning is the norm… you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of...

I think I’ve lost my faith and I can’t stop writingbecause I don’t know howmuch longer I can hold on.

Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.

Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions