Depression


The Bell Jar
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Reasons to Stay Alive
Speak
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
All the Bright Places
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Catcher in the Rye
A Little Life
C.S. Lewis
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Barbara Kingsolver
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. ...more
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

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