Andrew Solomon Quotes

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• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.…
• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence…
• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it…
• I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
• Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression…
• It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage.…
• 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…
• When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons,…
• Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of…
• 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…
• The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end…
• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend…
• I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
• All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should…
• Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
• Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
• Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for…
• I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even…
• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid…
• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental…

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