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Category Archives: Depression
Always Keep Fighting
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A Famous NHL Goalie Put A Bullet In His Head, And He Wants Everyone To Know Why
Warning for potential triggers.
I applaud his candor.
Do Depression Drugs Still Need Suicide Warnings?
About Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
We Need To End The Stigma Around Mental Illness
A Blood Test For Depression Shows The Illness Is Not A Matter Of Will
WHY I PLAN TO STAY ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS — MAYBE FOREVER
The So-Called…
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.” ―David Foster Wallace
And The Moon Sees All 