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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
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We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.
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A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.
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I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.
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I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.
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He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.
