Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree. There is a sanity to grief, in its just proportion of emotion to cause, that madness does not have. I know madness well, but I understood...
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anythin...
I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.
Her version of Lowell was not theirs, even when they were discussing the same symptoms; what to her was mad was to them another mark of Lowell’s genius.
He was low-key, I was intense; things that cut me to the quick he was able to sail by with scarcely a notice; he was slow to anger, I quick; the world registered gently upon him, sometimes not at all,...
For as long as I can remember, I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods.
Depression affects not only mood but the nature and content of thought as well. Thinking processes almost always slow down, and decisiveness is replaced by indecision and rumination. The ability to co...
Circadian rhythms are implicated in some of the symptoms of depression, such as early awakening and diurnal variation in mood. The possible importance of the circadian system in its pathogenesis is su...
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 or...
لقد استغرق الأمر مني زمنًا طويلًا لكي أدرك أن السنوات و العلاقات الإنسانية التي فقدتها لا يمكن استرجاعها، و أن الأذى الذي وقع على نفسي و على الآخرين لا يمكن دائمًا إصلاحه ، و أن التحرر من سيطرة الدواء...
كنتُ أستيقظ في الصباح مع شعور عميق بالفزع لما سأمر به من معاناة في يومٍ جديد .
فضولي و مزاجي أخذاني إلى أماكن لم أكن قادرةً على وصولها بمشاعري .
عندما بدأت أشعر بنفسي مجددًا لم أكن على استعداد أن أخاطر بخسارة المزيد من الوقت مثلما سبق. الحياة لم تعد تستحق أن أخسرها .
اكتئاب سوداوي حاد وانتحاري طويل استمر اكثر من سنة ونصف منذ استيقاظي في الصباح حتى وقت الذهاب لسريري للنوم في الليل كنت اشعر انني تعيسة بشكل لا يطاق وفاقدة القدرة على المتعة تماما ,كان كل شيئ يجهدني ,ا...
When I was told either to lower my sights or to rein in my enthusiasms
And increased energy)
Yet however genuinely dreadful these moods and memories have been, they have always been offset by the elation and vitality of others; and whenever a mild and gentlish wave of brilliant and bubbling m...
We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few.
We all move uneasily within our restraints.