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Mesu Andrews
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Love's Sacred Song
As I was saying, King Solomon, my daughter brings with her the most powerful weapon on earth--love."
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Andrew Solomon
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Far from the Tree: Parents,
For some parents of children with horizontal identities, acceptance reaches its apogee when parents conclude that while they supposed they were pinioned by a great and catastrophic loss of hope, they were in fact falling in love with someone they didn't yet know enough to want.
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Andrew Solomon
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Far from the Tree: Parents,
when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.
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andrew solomon
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Far from the Tree: Parents,
This thought runs like a bright golden thread through the dark tapestry of our sorrow. We learn so much from our children-in patience, in humility, in gratitude for other blessings we had accepted before as a matter of course; so much in tolerance; so much in faith-believing and trusting where we cannot see; so much in compassion for our fellow man; and yes, even so much in wisdom about the eternal values in life.
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Andrew Solomon
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Far From the Tree
I'll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept their child. They're two separate things, the parental loss, and the actual person they will almost always end up loving.
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
one loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life;
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon
That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it.
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital.
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of
Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to remember and think and express and understand - all things I needed to be able to do to talk. To keep my face animated at the same time was insult added to injury. It was like trying to cook and roller-skate and sing and type all at once.
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Andrew Solomon
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Far from the Tree: Parents,
If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon
In depression, the meaninglessness of every enterprise and every emotion, the meaninglessness of life itself, becomes self-evident. The only feeling left in this loveless state is insignificance. Life
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Andrew Solomon
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The Noonday Demon
If everyone has the capacity for some measure of depression under some circumstances, everyone also has the capacity to fight depression to some degree under some circumstances. Often, the fight takes the form of seeking out the treatments that will be most effective in the battle. It involves finding help while you are still strong enough to do so. It involves making the most of the life you have between your most severe episodes. Some horrendously symptom-ridden people are able to achieve real success in life; and some people are utterly destroyed by the mildest forms of the illness.
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