Rachelle’s Reviews > Reasons to Stay Alive > Status Update

(…) “So if you are having another bad day you can say, Well, this feels bad, but there have been worse. And even when you can think of no worse day—when the one you are living is the very worst there has ever been—you at least know the bank exists and that you have made a deposit.”

“When you are very depressed or anxious-unable to leave the house, or the sofa, or to think of anything but the depression-it can be unbearably hard. Bad days come in degrees. They are not all equally bad. And the really bad ones, though horrible to live through, are useful for later. You store them up. A bank of bad days. (…)

“That's the odd thing about depression and anxiety. It acts like an intense fear of happiness, even as you yourself consciously want that happiness more than anything. So if it catches you smiling, even fake smiling, then—well, that stuff's just not allowed and you know it, so here comes ten tons of counterbalance.”