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

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Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present mome...more

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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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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

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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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It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving b...more

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To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspe...more

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Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does not necessarily impl...more

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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw...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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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