It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life ther is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal--unpleasant, but normal. Depression is in an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel...is an attempt on nature's part (nature, afterall, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space. But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking, waking dead.
And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.--P. 22 of Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
My problem was always depression, straight up. The drinking, the drugging, they were mere accessories to the crime. Freshman year in college, that long hot summer in dallas--those were periods of excess that came and went, never to be repeated. But the vise of depression, no matter what, just wouldn't let go. "it's not drugs," I say to David. "It's just, it's that, it's just that it's all so awful."--P. 178
Time to read this book again...
And the scariest part is that if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.--P. 22 of Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
My problem was always depression, straight up. The drinking, the drugging, they were mere accessories to the crime. Freshman year in college, that long hot summer in dallas--those were periods of excess that came and went, never to be repeated. But the vise of depression, no matter what, just wouldn't let go. "it's not drugs," I say to David. "It's just, it's that, it's just that it's all so awful."--P. 178
Time to read this book again...
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But it gets better, sometimes, and that's enough to keep me going.
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