Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression

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  • b2453840522has quoted8 years ago
    the combination of drugs and therapy works better than either one alone.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    I tried hard to die but have an enchanted life.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    is always on the edge of falling down again.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    There is a lot of volition but you can’t control the recovery. You can’t figure out when it will happen, any more than you can predict when someone will die
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    Depression lowers self-esteem, but in many personalities, it does not eliminate pride, which is as good an engine for the fight as any I know. When you’re so far down that love seems almost meaningless, vanity and a sense of obligation can save your life.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    the locus coeruleus in the brain controls both norepinephrine production and the lower bowel, at least half of anxiety-disorder patients have irritable bowel syndrome as well; and anyone who has had really intense anxiety knows just how fast and furiously food can run through the digestive system.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.”
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    but I was too frightened to chew.
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    The best defense, for people with a biological vulnerability, is a “good enough” marriage, which absorbs external humiliations and minimizes them. “The psychosocial creates biological changes,” Brown acknowledges. “The thing is that the vulnerability must initially be triggered by external events.”
  • Yasinta A.has quoted3 years ago
    The biggest stress is humiliation; the second is loss.
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