Parents often confuse the anomaly of developing fast with the objective of developing profoundly.
[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.
The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances.
The cochlear implant is really a holding mechanism for a larger debate about assimilation versus alienation, about the extent to which standardizing human populations is a laudable mark of progress an...
It is too often the quality of happiness that you feel at every moment its fragility, while depression seems when you are in it to be a state that will never pass. Even if you accept that moods change...
In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.
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 by jobs I would never want or need to do.
Defective is an adjective that has long been deemed too freighted for liberal discourse, but the medical terms that have supplanted it—illness, syndrome, condition—can be almost equally pejorative in...
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us...
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he...
Если я решу покончить с собой, психологически мне не надо будет далеко ходить, потому что умом и сердцем я более готов к этому, чем к незапланированным повседневным пертурбациям, отмечающим собою кажд...
You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
When I had the third breakdown, the mini-breakdown, I was in the late stages of writing this book. Since I could not cope with communication of any kind during that period, I put an auto-response mess...
Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. Diagnosis
No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
It seemed to take the most colossal effort to do simple things. I remember bursting into tears because I had used up the cake of soap that was in the shower. I cried because one of the keys stuck for...
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood.
The social perception of whether any supposed deficit is the parents' fault is always a critical factor in the experience of both children and parents. The attribution of responsibility to parents is...
Prozac doesn’t do it unless we help it along. 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 takes away and...