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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
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"This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason."
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"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
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"Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors."
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"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
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"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."
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"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
Abuse
"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs."
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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
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"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression."
Love
"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."
Time
"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
Flying
"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
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"As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing."
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"People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection."
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"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
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