Best quotes by Andrew Solomon on Depression

Checkout quotes by Andrew Solomon on Depression

• ‟ You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

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• ‟ I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

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• ‟ Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

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• ‟ Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

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• ‟ One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

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• ‟ The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

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• ‟ Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.

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• ‟ It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.

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