Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on...

The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may...

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t...

Nobody would commit suicide if the pain of being inside herself, the agony of the sleepless, tortured hours spent watching the world get smaller and uglier, were bearable or could be relieved by other people...

Part of the forces that sent Sam trudging across the white prairies was love of life, a gladness for health and youth that filled him as Mozart’s gayest music filled him; and part of it...

Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I” is replaced by “We”, illness becomes wellness.

Love is like a piece of chocalate. It’s looks and tastes good, but it’s dark. What really matters is the inside.

If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don’t you know better? Ugly and wicked, you...

I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it’ll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you’ll die.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don’t think you do feel...

Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need.

Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to remember and think and express and understand – all things I needed to be able to do...

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

a depressed person doesn’t want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience,...

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

Running away can also be running to.

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion: low levels or serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause depression. here is how the authors of the most complete meta-analysis of serotonin-depletion...

In those pamphlets that they give at mental health centers where they list the ten or so symptoms that would indicate a clinical depression, ‘suicide threats’ or even simple ‘talk of suicide’ is considered cause...

A lot of people will try to understand depression but you find it takes time, it is very difficult.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Its emotional character … is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency —sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping...

Only people who’re positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you’re as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

The fatigue I’ve gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun,...

Ignoring to change your thoughts and beliefs wouldn’t fail to cause your negative mood to remain unchanged.

You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.

recession.” No matter how many millions of jobs are lost, how much debt our country accrues, or how many years the stagnation drags on, it’s not a depression until the dogmatic media officially declares it...

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

still, what could i say? that i didn’t just feel depressed – instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that...

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

It occurred to me that grief is like a tunnel. You enter it without a choice because you must get to the other side. The darkness of it plays tricks on you and sometimes you...

Happiness is not a reward. It’s a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

You’re surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don’t notice me.

I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice a month but it never seems light enough. I drink two and a...

You know what you have to do, you just can’t do it”, Sara says wearily. “It’s like you have bricks on your feet.

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an’ stuff like that, too; not just word writin’. My ol’ man’ll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa’s gonna...

It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

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Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, “Do you think those pills work?”Not like that, I...

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

As long as everyone thinks you’re a cutter or tried to commit suicide you’ll always be on the outs.

Misery loves companyTragically

…you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation – I care too much for you – I romanticize depression…

Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would cry at the smallest of things- a little boy walking home by himself,...

He’s following me… He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot...