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...
The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass c...
You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered. If all young adults were required to spend two weeks in a foreign country, two-thirds of the world's diplomatic problems could b...
You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now y...
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....
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...
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...
Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward.
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.
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