There are so many great quotes here regarding depression and the struggles that go along with it. I share these not to encourage you or myself to wallow in the struggle, but as a reminder that other people have felt what we feel. We are not the first and we certainly will not be the last. Before the link, however, a couple of my favorites:
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Which ones resonate with you?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/depression
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