Dustin

“Suicide is not selfish
Characterising suicide as selfish simply adds to the stigma around it. And when stigma increases, help-seeking declines, ignorance flourishes and deaths soar.”
― Rory O’ Connor, When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It

“It is not the trauma itself that is the source of illness but the unconscious, repressed, hopeless despair over not being allowed to give expression to what one has suffered and the fact that one is not allowed to show and is unable to experience feelings of rage, anger, humiliation, despair, helplessness, and sadness. This causes many people to commit suicide because life no longer seems worth living if they are totally unable to live out all these strong feelings that are part of their true self.”
― Alice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“I AM AT ODDS WITH MYSELF.
I WILL GET EVEN WITH MYSELF.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort thinking further.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom