“I am willing to be vulnerable and embrace the natural flow of life rather than trying to direct it to my own course and yet it has given me new courage because there is no consequence that could come as… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a pizza, for… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“I am willing to be vulnerable and embrace the natural flow of life rather than trying to direct it to my own course and… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a normal mood… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“When I noticed other people, I wondered what it was like to be alive. They did not know, could not know, how I felt… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“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.” — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“The genre of self-help for depression is littered with well-intentioned books that overpraise solutions and raise false hopes. It would be nice to defeat… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.” — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.” — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
