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“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's...”
“RebukeObstinate regressionbringing untold pathsof deep dark forebodingdepression...”
“Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.”
“I began to see that the stronger a therapy emphasized feelings, self-esteem, and self-confidence, the more dependent the therapist was upon his providing for the patient ongoing, unconditional, pos...”
“The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.”
“The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief youll find.”
“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”
“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people...”
“My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery.”
“Theories without data are like daydreams.”
“Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.”
“The process of finding the right doctor for you is excruciatingly painful, sometimes causing more damage than what you started with, but the feeling of finding the right one is priceless.”
“Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.”
“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. ...”
“What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On...”
“A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.”
“When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being ...”
“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”
“Live in the question...Leave all the answers blank...Let's play with the magic of uncertainty”
“You are sick not weak. It is okay to be depressed.”
