“Because a life filled with depression—sadness and stress and the tumult and drama that comes with such a life—can be addicting. After you live with it long enough, you only feel normal if you are mired in darkness. No, I do not mean the Darkness that is accompanied by evil. I mean the darkness that is an absence of joy, of lightness of spirit, of happiness. Depression is an abyss—a pit from which it is difficult to emerge. You must truly want everything that the absence of sadness brings with it—all the victories and defeats of a life lived open to the endless possibilities of love and light
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