Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. Diagnosis
People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are ove...
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 an important study done in 1979, researchers demonstrated that any form of therapy could be effective if certain criteria were met: that both the therapist and the patient were acting in good faith...
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...
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...
In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.
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...
Its wideness:
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...
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...
Let me bury here the rage I feel to have been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved.
Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.
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 real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolute...
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I've met through this. It's who I am.
Осознание собственной слабости мешает раскрывать в общении всю глубину своей индивидуальности - в результате большинство тех, с кем я подружилась за последние восемь-десять лет, стали шапочными знаком...