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“What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“Spring and Fall” …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For some of us, the sadness running under the skin of things begins as a trickle and ends up a hemorrhage, staining everything.”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“even on medication, there is nothing tempting enough to make me want to rise,”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
“You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can’t remember that I’ve ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.”
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
― This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Syncuvane’s 2024 Year in Books
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