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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."
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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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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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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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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
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"If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help."
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"Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about."
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"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."
Healing
"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."
Humanity
"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."
Gender
"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."
Peace
"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
Perception
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
Desire
"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."
Emotion
"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."
Instinct
"Fixed stars govern a life."
Destiny
"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."
Reflection
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