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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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Personal Development
"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
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Personal Development
"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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Personal Development
"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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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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Personal Development
"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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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
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Personal Development
"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
Trust
"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
Depression
"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."
Age
"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
Change
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
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
"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs."
People
"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
People
"People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware."
People
"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
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