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Andrew Solomon Quotes

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes Picture Quote #1

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand Picture Quote #1

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph Picture Quote #1

Depression means that you have no point of view Picture Quote #1

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution Picture Quote #1

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle Picture Quote #1

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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger Picture Quote #1

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion Picture Quote #1

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it’s ridiculous. You know it’s ridiculous while you’re experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it’s not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds Picture Quote #1

That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect Picture Quote #1

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don’t get it Picture Quote #1

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors Picture Quote #1

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come Picture Quote #1

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul Picture Quote #1

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it Picture Quote #1

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless Picture Quote #1

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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state Picture Quote #1

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones Picture Quote #1

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again Picture Quote #1

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children’s faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination Picture Quote #1

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good Picture Quote #1

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves Picture Quote #1

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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources Picture Quote #1

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks Picture Quote #1

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope Picture Quote #1

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment Picture Quote #1

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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Depression means that you have no point of view (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion (Andrew Solomon Quotes) One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it’s ridiculous. You know it’s ridiculous while you’re experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it’s not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it (Andrew Solomon Quotes) 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 (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds (Andrew Solomon Quotes) That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect (Andrew Solomon Quotes) A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don’t get it (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come (Andrew Solomon Quotes) I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it (Andrew Solomon Quotes) It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones (Andrew Solomon Quotes) The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children’s faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination (Andrew Solomon Quotes) I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good (Andrew Solomon Quotes) All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks (Andrew Solomon Quotes) Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons (Andrew Solomon Quotes) 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 (Andrew Solomon Quotes) A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope (Andrew Solomon Quotes) The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment (Andrew Solomon Quotes)

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