"Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings,……" — Andrew Solomon

"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 are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true."

— Andrew Solomon

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my…
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond…
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of…
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.…
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible…
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference…
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not…
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life…

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