She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

My life outlook isn’t cloudy. That’s just the weather report for the rest of my life.

It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.

The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child.

Do not worry over things you can not control. There's always a way. There's always a choice.