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At least three times as many mentally ill people are in jail as are in hospitals.
Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.
El analfabetismo y la pobreza son discapacidades, como también lo son la imbecilidad, la obesidad y la apatía.
Everything passes away—suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the e...
I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them.
I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.
I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness.
I was fascinated to hear of the suicide of an octopus, trained for the circus, that had been accustomed to do tricks for rewards of food. When the circus disbanded, the octopus was kept in a tank and...
If everyone has the capacity for some measure of depression under some circumstances, everyone also has the capacity to fight depression to some degree under some circumstances. Often, the fight takes...
If some glorious angel descended into my living room and offered to exchange my children for other, better children-brighter, kinder, funnier, more loving, more disciplined, more accomplished-I would...
If you attach better services to a diagnostic category, some doctors will apply that diagnosis to children from whom it is not entirely appropriate in order to access those services.
If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.
If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)
In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all. Depression is a condition that is almost unimaginabl...
In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and the reality of madness. I discovered two conflicting qualities of...
It is my experience that the hard numbers are the ones that lie. The matters that they describe cannot be defined so clearly. The most accurate statement that can be made on the frequency of depressio...
It is the sincere horror of it that gets others motivated, so say Watson and Andrews; the dysfunction caused by the onset of depression may serve a useful function in that it is a device for the elici...
La depressione è un’incrinatura dell’amore. Per essere capaci di amare dobbiamo essere capaci di disperarci per ciò che perdiamo e la depressione è il meccanismo con cui esprimiamo questa disperazione...
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