Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, t...
But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine. As John Donne has written; it is not so pure and abstract as one might once have thought and wished, but it does endure and...
In its severe forms, depression paralyzes all of the otherwise vital forces that make us human, leaving instead a bleak, despairing, desperate, and deadened state. . .Life is bloodless, pulseless, and...
لقد كُنتُ مليئة بألفِ نوبةِ ابتهاج أو يأس كالح .
كنت قد نسيت طعم الإحساس بالحياة عندما تنفتح الروح على الريح و المطر و الجمال، وبدأت أشعر بتسرب الحياة مجددا إلى التصدعات الموجودة في جسمي و عقلي اللذين كنت قد شطبتهما تماما باعتبارهما مستنزفين أو هامد...
ذاتك هو ذاتك، و الخداع عبر الاختباء خلف درجة علمية، أو لقب علمي، أو أي سلوك و عبارات منمقة، لا يزال تماما : خداعا. ربما كان ضروريا و لكنه خداع.
بدأت أستمتع بالموسيقى و الرسومات مجددًا ، بدأت أضحك مجددًا ، بدأت أكتب الشعر مجددًا. ليالٍ طويلةٌ و صباحات مبكرة من العواطف الرائعة جعلتني أعيد الاعتقاد، أو أتذكر أهمية الإحساس بأن أعيش لأحب و أن أحب...
My curiosity and temperament had taken me to places I was not really able to handle emotionally,
Lower dose, which, like the building codes in California that are designed to prevent damage from earthquakes, allowed my mind and emotions to sway a bit.
High altitude coupled with rigorous exercise can raise lithium levels. I became completely disoriented and totally incapable of navigating my way down the mountain.
But there is an extra twist of almost painful nostalgia brought about by having lived a life particularly intense in moods. This makes it even harder to leave the past behind, and life, on occasion, b...
Am reminded of Byron’s wonderful description of the rainbow that sits Like Hope upon a death-bed on the verge of a wild, rushing cataract; yet, while all around is torn / By the distracted waters, the...
These qualities—independence, contrariness, ambition, toughness, receptiveness to experience—are the blood supply to a creative mind and temperament; they are wellspring to imagination. The ferocity a...
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower, wrote Dylan Thomas,
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
Th Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of thought, but they must contend with unusually tumultuous and unpredictable emotions as well. The integration of the...
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may...
Named for his smooth and slithery essence, the Oyster was a senior professor: he was patronizing, smug, and had all of the intellectual and emotional complexity of, as one might expect, a small mollus...