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•I can remember the day the old me died. It started with a thought.

•a depressive doesn’t want to be happy, he could not care less about the luxury of happiness. He just wants to feel an absence of pain

•Things people say to depressives that they

don’t say in other life-threatening situations:

‘Why do you think you got cancer?’

‘Oh, cancer you say? Tell me about it, I get that all the time.’

•meditation concept says that we don’t need any pills or material to feel better, everything lies within ourselves

•If you are scared when there is nothing to be scared of, eventually your brain has to give you things

•reason to stay alive: You want to kill yourself. That is as low as it gets. There is only upwards from here.

•Pain, of any kind, is a very isolating experience.

•when you are feeling dark and intense, dark books are the only kind of books that can speak to you.

•Running worked for me. Many of the physical symptoms of panic – the racing heart, the problematic breathing, the sweating – are matched by running.

•Depression does not fit within the normal spectrum of emotions. You can’t step outside it without stepping outside of life. Every single thing you experience is filtered through it.