Matthew

“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

“The monolithic problem of depression cannot be expressed with a monolithic response; depressions are contextual and must be interpreted within the contexts in which they occur.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“I didn't particularly want to die but I also didn't at all want to live.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Therapy allows a person to make sense of the new self he has attained on medication, and to accept the loss of self that occurred during a breakdown. You need to be reborn after a severe episode, and you need to learn the behaviors that may protect against relapse. You need to run your life differently from how you ran it before.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon