Anne Sheffield

“Of all the negative effects of depression fallout, it is the suspension of an exchange of love between ourselves and those who have the illness that wreaks the greatest damage on all concerned. Lacking that exchange, both we and they fall prey to other, more negative feelings that seep in to fill the vacuum. I did not choose to stop loving my mother; somewhere in time I simply became exhausted by the effort of giving what I never received in return, and so the love lost strength and purpose, and at last died.”
― Anne Sheffield, How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout