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You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.
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present
depression
future
cognition
issues
troubles
judgment
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Andrew Solomon |
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"But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see.
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fight-back
troubles
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Dr Seuss |
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The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
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world
humor
misunderstandings
problems
troubles
grammar
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Michel de Montaigne |
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Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16)
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happy
prayer
faith
inspiration
spirituality
heal
healing
troubles
miracles
pray
sing
sin
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Anonymous |
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Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
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troubles
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William Shakespeare |
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Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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troubles
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J.D. Salinger |
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"Cease your weeping!" he said. "It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!" Idunn glared at him with red-rimmed eyes. "It is you who are the source of my troubles." she said. "Well, perhaps. But that was so long ago. That was yesterday's Loki. Today's Loki is here to save you and take you home."
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troubles
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Neil Gaiman |
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Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.
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smoke-and-fire
troubles
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Alison Weir |
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He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.
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thoughts
life
troubles
thinking
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Philip Pullman |
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"When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us."
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judaism
anti-semitism
troubles
woes
jews
persecution
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Nathan Englander |
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As a child I had been quiet and invisible when troubled; as an adult, I had hidden my mental illness behind an elaborate construction of laughter and work and dissembling.
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dissembling
troubles
masks
mental-illness
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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It's human nature, Rainie. We're all looking for something to believe in, and someone to blame.
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troubles
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Lisa Gardner |
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The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? - that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for - sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275]
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temptation
troubles
peace
tears
longing
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