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Posted 1 week ago
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Author William Styron (Sophie’s Choice) talks about his struggles with depression, which he chronicled painfully and brilliantly in his 1990 memoir, Darkness Visible. 

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Posted 1 month ago
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That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as they see the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Posted 1 month ago
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Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.
Learned Optimism – Martin Seligman, father of positive psychology, on happiness, depression, and the meaningful life.

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Posted 2 months ago
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Only where there is
disillusionment and
depression and sorrow
does happiness arise;
without the despair of loss,
there is no hope.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami

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Posted 2 months ago
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guardian: Bender wasn’t the first robot to struggle with boredom and depression – that honour goes to the ship’s robot from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.“I didn’t ask to be made,” said Marvin, morosely. “No one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. See more robots in our gallery: 10 of the best robots Photograph: Laurie Sparham/PR

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Bender wasn’t the first robot to struggle with boredom and depression – that honour goes to the ship’s robot from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.“I didn’t ask to be made,” said Marvin, morosely. “No one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter.

See more robots in our gallery: 10 of the best robots

Photograph: Laurie Sparham/PR

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Posted 3 months ago
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Men, regardless of age group, often don’t recognise when they are depressed. Depression in men is likely to be signalled by anger, so won’t be recognised either by men themselves or by women as depression. Ironically, they may end up in jail rather than a GP’s surgery. For a man to ask for help is seen as failure, because by convention men are supposed to be in control at all times.
Jane Powell, Suicide is a gender issue (via mindovermatterzine)

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Posted 4 months ago
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Happiness, she said, is a fickle friend. Sadness, however, will always save a seat for you.
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Posted 4 months ago
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‘People think that if you’re depressed, you’re depressed about something., he explains to me. ‘More often than not, I’m not. I just feel… Terrible. And it’s not about record sales or media or family. That’s stuff I can pin it on. The real root of it all is, actually, I suffer with an illness that’s called depression.’
Robbie Williams in Chris Heaths ‘Feel’ (via hellyeahrobbiewilliams)

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Posted 4 months ago
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mothernaturenetwork: Drinking diet soda linked to depression In a study, people who drank 4 or more cans of soda a day were 30 percent more likely to have a depression and the risk was especially high for diet soda drinkers.

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Drinking diet soda linked to depression
In a study, people who drank 4 or more cans of soda a day were 30 percent more likely to have a depression and the risk was especially high for diet soda drinkers.

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Posted 5 months ago
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As often as Kanye West talks about the state of his mental health, one would think that we’d be having a national conversation on mental health–kind of like the way we had a wave of conversations about domestic violence in the wake of the Chris Brown-Rihanna incident. Yet, in the four years since Kanye began talking openly about the depression related to the death of his mother and the dissolution of his romantic relationship with longtime paramour Alexis Phifer, the conversations have continued to be one-sided.

A search for “Kanye West and Depression” brings up surprisingly few articles and discussions. There’s a sterile AP article describing his initial comments, Cord Jefferson advising Kanye to go to a therapist on The Root, an MTV news article on his path to recovery, and Tom Breihan in the Village Voice distilling 808′s and Heartbreak down to “emo bellyaching” and a “album-length tantrum at his ex.” While Bassey Ikpi later argued to have some compassion for Kanye, it was one small plea in a sea of indifference and condemnation.

After four years of being open about pain and vulnerability, I’m starting to wonder if society will ever really hear him.

The R’s editor/owner Latoya Peterson is posting about mental health—in pop culture and in daily lives—all this week. Check out her analysis on Kanye West’ 808’s and Heartbreak and how badly pop/media culture handled his discussing his mental health on the album on the R today.  (via racialicious)

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Posted 5 months ago
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I am an optimist.
It does not seem
too much use being
anything else.

Winston Churchill (via kari-shma)

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Posted 5 months ago
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I am an optimist.
It does not seem
too much use
being anything else.
Winston Churchill (via kari-shma)

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Posted 6 months ago
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“I don’t want to think,

I don’t want to feel nothing.  

I just want to be numb”

– Pet Shop Boys, “Numb”

While my medications have been keeping me numb most of the time…I’m finding myself feeling the deep pains I used to feel many months ago.  I’ve fought these demons before…this time is different it seems.  Those urges I feel on a daily basis are starting to become stronger.  I try to ignore them, but they still come to the surface late at night.

Right now, I don’t know where to turn for help.  I know I have friends who would be willing to listen.  Friends who care and that I trust.  But I also know that they have issues going on in their own lives at the moment and I don’t want to add to them.  I wish these demons would just leave me alone!!  Why can’t I have a moments peace from all the voices in my head??

Tonight, I’m hanging on by a thread that is slowly fraying.  I feel so alone right now.  Those that I would talk to are too busy to take notice that something is wrong.  They are so focused on their own lives that they either don’t care to notice or don’t see what is going on.  I’m finding myself unhappy and I don’t know why.  I should feel blessed with all God has given me, and yet I feel as though there should be more.  I’m thankful for all that I have been blessed with, and yet my heart craves for more.

I’m craving the ending to the loneliness that is going through my heart at the moment.  I know I can surround myself with friends, but I know that I would just be putting up a front and the smile.  My smile wouldn’t reach my eyes right now.  I’m tired of waiting for God to bring me that special someone.  I want to be able to live and share my life with them while I am still young enough to live it.  I don’t know…maybe I’ve screwed up all of my chances and there is nothing left.

I’m tired of feeling all this pain in my life.  I don’t want to be numb from all the happiness that I know I could be feeling, but I want to be numb from the pain.  I wish there was an escape for me.  I don’t necessarily need “me” time…but I need to find a way of getting away from all this and finding my way back to the way I was before.

I have a song which explains so much about what I am feeling.  ”Numb” by the Pet Shop Boys.  I find that I am better able to express myself through music.  I wish I could live my life speaking on through music…but life isn’t a musical.  But there are songs which can say so much that I could never say.  They have a way of bringing to light what I am feeling and are better at describing it and putting it into words than I could ever do.

So here is my song for the evening…maybe this will help to shed some light onto what is going on through my brain.  If I could find a way of posting the video on here, I would.  But for now…here are the lyrics.

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Posted 6 months ago
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mindovermatterzine: [Image: An infographic by The Kings Fund showing in Venn diagram form the overlap of people with mental health problems and people with long term physical conditions. ‘Around 30% of all people with a long-term physical condition in England also have a mental health problem. Most commonly depression / anxiety. Mental health problems exacerbate physical illness.] Full infographic ‘The Changing Patient’ can be viewed here.

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[Image: An infographic by The Kings Fund showing in Venn diagram form the overlap of people with mental health problems and people with long term physical conditions. ‘Around 30% of all people with a long-term physical condition in England also have a mental health problem. Most commonly depression / anxiety. Mental health problems exacerbate physical illness.]

Full infographic ‘The Changing Patient’ can be viewed here.

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Posted 6 months ago
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There comes a time when the blankness of future is so extreme. It is such a black wall of nothingness. Not even of bad things - it’s not like it’s a cave full of monsters that you’re afraid of entering, it is just nothingness. ‘Néant’ as the French would say: the void, the emptiness. And it is just horrible.
Stephen Fry on depression. (via mindovermatterzine)

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