Assuming I am mad {Ha!} god, how I must have suffered to go mad. And all the time I was calling to people to save me and no one put out his hand and held it. This is like suicide, only I am alive and...

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth - century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold...

There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was...

You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time, and you...

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

By the time I was old enough to figure out that I was simply introverted, it was a part of my being, the assumption that there is something inherently wrong with me. I wish I could find that little...

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

In her desperation she consulted Penny Thornton, an astrologer introduced to her by Sarah Ferguson. Diana admitted to Penny that she couldn't bear the pressure of her position any longer and that she...

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for Stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things? And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there, duh.

My thoughts kept straying onto random paths... hoping to get lost in a thicket.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.

Anne Lamott advises, Try not to compare your insides with other people's outsides.

You may have some major strongholds in your life that need to be broken. Let me encourage you by saying, "God is on your side." There is a war going on, and your mind is the battlefield. But the good...

I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

I'm not fine. Soon, the tears will come. I can sense them building in the pit of my stomach, coating the belly of candy. They will come when I am alone in the dark, in my own bed, with no one to...

Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.

I have no idea how I managed to pass as normal in school, except that other people are generally caught up in their own lives and seldom notice despair in others if those despairing make an effort to...

In fact, many features of hypomania — such as outgoingness, increased energy, intensified sexuality, increased risk-taking, persuasiveness, self-confidence, and heightened productivity — have been...

Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes.

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing...

The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as temporal exhaustion: If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for...

I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.

Chances are that he's experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that. Otherwise, there is the danger that he will simply shut down that part of...

… anxiety was, for her, a form of prayer.

I had a long talk with my husband last night. And he made me realize that I have to choose which voices to believe. I can believe the ones that tell me I'm not good enough or brave enough or pretty...

Jenks shook his head. Rache, I really feel bad for her, but Ivy's right. She can't stay here. She needs professional help. Really? I said belligerently, feeling myself warm. I haven't heard of any...