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When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with ...more

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Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been...more

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Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I...more

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Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience...more

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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron. It is too much grief at too slight a caus...more

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I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

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I did not want to sit on the roof, though I was also aware that if I didn’t allow myself the relief of considering suicide, I would soon explode from ...more

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You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a ...more

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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of tha...more

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of...more

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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 ar...more

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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year witho...more

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If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the l...more

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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 ...more