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.
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...
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.
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.
Without self-discovery, Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.
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.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. When it comes, it degrades one's self a...
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
The fibrous tongue is actually the strongest muscle per inch in the body; if it were the size of a biceps, you could pick up a car with it.
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...
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Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.
To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regardi...
There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that...
The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in...
So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter.
Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals. Depression is not just a lot of pain; but too much pain can...
Mă simt tot timpul ca și cum fiecare ar vrea o bucățică din mine.