Veronica Adderley

“Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.”
― Joubert Botha

“As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no symptoms in common can both end up with the same unitary diagnosis of depression. For this reason especially, the concept of depression as a mental disorder has been charged with being little more than a socially constructed dustbin for all manner of human suffering.”
― Neel Burton, The Meaning of Madness

“This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.”
― Ruby Wax

“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
― Andrei Lankov