It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus...

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self - a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able...

Time had not faded my memories {as I had prayed to God it might}, nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my...

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to...

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,...

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

I have nobody in the world. I'll kill myself. That's best. Everyone will say, It's for the best that she killed herself, she's better off dead . . . I hate myself so much I could spend hours and hours...

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to...

Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this...

It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during...

Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is out of my...

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying 'I'm fine' to people when you're not fine. You think you be...

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. André Chevalier