“I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.”
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“When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.”
― Arabelle's Shadows
― Arabelle's Shadows
“Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom of severe depression, not a character failing or moral flaw. Nor is it, truly, a desire to die so much as a fervent wish not to go on living. All depressives understand that distinction.”
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
― Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
“I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.”
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