#depress

It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark. ↗

— David Lovelace

#depression #lithium #manic-depression #medication #therapy

When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people. ↗

— Albert Borris

#depression #suicide #death

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you. ↗

— Helena Dela

#food #grief #food

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#economy #exploration #inspirational #progress #inspirational

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. ↗

— William Raymond Manchester

#despondency #leadership #resiliency #leadership

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#life

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#depression #grief #hurt #pain #sadness

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#inspirational #death

And then he felt the misery of his life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life