In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZELI come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
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I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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It’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
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…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
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My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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