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“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ”
“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 was time ...”
“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm gl...”
“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
“I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here.""Is there something wrong with that?""Absolutely.”
“I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and shattered glass stained with red all over the place; you fal...”
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and hum...”
“You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills an...”
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ”
“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despa...”
“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
“It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.”
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
“This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while wr...”
