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“I feel as though I died a few weeks ago, but my body hasn't found out yet.”

I’ve literally never had a book perfectly encapsulate what depression truly feels like.

I cannot get over how much better I feel simply by learning more about depression and anxiety. This book is like a warm hug from a teacher that actually wants you to succeed.

“Becoming depressed is like going blind, the darkness at first gradual, then encompassing; it is like going deaf, hearing less and less until a terrible silence is all around you, until you cannot make any sound of your own to penetrate the quiet. It is like an isolating immobility that will atrophy you and in time destroy you.”

I can already say this is the most powerful book I’ve ever read

“The first thing that goes is happiness. You cannot gain pleasure from anything. But soon other emotions follow happiness into oblivion: sadness as you had known it, the sadness that seemed to have led you here; your sense of humor; your belief in and capacity for love.
Your mind is leached until you seem dim-witted even to yourself. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.”
This book is so amazing 😩