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“I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: depression, medication-side-effects

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“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

tags: family-relationships, love

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“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

tags: love, suffering

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“A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: depression, sense-of-humor

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“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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