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- That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there…
- No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch…
- And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU.…
- Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep…
- The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses…
- I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull…
- At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up…
- After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life…
- Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this…
- Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity…
- I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
- Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming…
- Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.
- Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words,…
- The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain…
- Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
- It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's…
- I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of…
- People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is that I am…
- I start to feel like I cant maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew…
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