Chapter 4 - Loneliness
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There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain, what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
Chapter 5 - The Body Knows
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DEPRESSION - one word to describe a mountain of
pain. One word to steal the light from a person's soul and leave them stranded
in a cold, gray landscape, alone and searching for something they couldn't even
name. -Unknown
Chapter 6 - Hopelessness
Chapter 6 - Hopelessness
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In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is
absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is
the foreknowledge that no remedy will come- not in a day, an hour, a month, or
a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more
pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Quote by William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006), an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.
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