A patient may say that he has spent certain months suffering major depression, but this is a way of imposing measurement on the immeasurable. All that one can really say for certain is that one has kn...
Мне очень трудно помнить хорошее, когда я в депрессии. Я без конца прокручиваю в памяти все плохое, что мне делали - я злопамятна, как слон, - и как я переживала обиду, и стыд, и неловкость, и все это...
Unhappiness very much. Few can cope with the idea of depression divorced from external reality. Many would prefer to think that if you’re suffering, it’s with reason and subject to logical resolution....
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 on the guarantee in our children's face...
Labeling a child’s mind as diseased—whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism—may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child....
I told my mother that she was not going anywhere and that I would remember her for a good long time because she was going to go on reminding me of herself.
Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience, and this is th...
Almost every day I feel momentary flashes of hopelessness and wonder every time whether I am slipping. For a petrifying instant here and there, a lightning-quick flash, I want a car to run me over and...
All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others.
. . With the wonder and bitterness of someone pardoned for a crime she did not commit I come back to marriage and friends, to pink fringed hollyhocks; come back to my desk, books, and chair.