Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Those responsible for our economic depression have been found irresponsible. The irresponsible are responsible!

As long as everyone thinks you’re a cutter or tried to commit suicide you’ll always be on the outs.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Ignoring to change your thoughts and beliefs wouldn't fail to cause your negative mood to remain unchanged.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.