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Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

by Ali Smith

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Be Your Own Therapist: Whoever You Hire Is Just Your Assistant - Self Help Psychology

by Thayer White

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Alia’s Quotes

“I am gripped by an existential panic.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

tags: depression, sadness

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“You don’t pass or fail at being a
person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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“The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

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“At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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