Unstuck Quotes

“SSRIs, a serotonin-enhancing drug, can cause potentially life-threatening damage to heart valves.”
― J.E. Gordon, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression

“When you let yourself feel the sadness or rage that gets stuck and buried in depression and you share those feelings, you are no longer depressed—pushed down and flattened out. You are expressing yourself and connecting with someone else. And when you do this simple thing, or anything else, for yourself, you’re no longer stuck, but moving. I tell Theresa, “If you pay attention—and much of our work is really about paying attention—to what is happening as you sit in the postures of yoga, or breathe slowly and deeply, or when you open the door to Barbara, you’ll feel that change and healing are possible, that they are already happening. Change and healing are the essence of all life, moving you deeper into it, moving you forward on your journey.”
― J.E. Gordon, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression

“The diagnosis of depression was now based not on causes or the context (loss of a relationship or job) in which depression took place, but only on the DSM symptoms. This made it easier to agree on who had the appropriate symptoms, but it was no longer clear what these clusters of symptoms actually meant—anyone whose ordinary unhappiness lasted longer than two weeks might be grouped, with no evidence or studies to justify it, in the same category of clinical depression as those suffering from crippling, despairing, bed-bound immobility.”
― J.E. Gordon, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression