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1 " Three depressed patients in a row. You almost start having suicidal thoughts yourself. What if they're right? What if life really is meaningless? What if they've cracked the code, seen the truth, unlike the rest of us? "
― Camilla Grebe , Some Kind of Peace
2 " We sit across from each other and when our eyes meet it is as if they cling to each other "
3 " My life: a constant struggle to overcome fear, to retain some kind of normalcy. "
4 " know how important it is for me to maintain control over my life. And how it feels to lose it, when it slips between your fingers like a wet bar of soap. "
5 " Dare to live in the present, for what it is. Even if it hurts. I know exactly how to do it, there are well-proven methods. I’m just not able to do it myself. "
6 " always make sure I turn on all the lights—because I don’t like darkness. It’s as if the absence of light erases the boundary between me and the world around me, which frightens me more than I want to admit and brings forth the feeling I know best of all: fear. "
7 " Being a depressed, passive failure with phobias can make you a better therapist, "
8 " All these people—no stranger than me, not crazy or evil—just trying to hold the seams together around their inner abyss. "
9 " But summer is also demanding. We must partake in happiness and social life, friendly gatherings and vacation. "
10 " All the actions we take without being able to foresee the consequences. All the complicated connections between events, relationships between people. "
11 " as if time were a channel, where it was possible to travel in both directions under controlled circumstances, instead of a waterfall. "
12 " But to me, the intent is more important than the cause. The cause is mechanical, the intent has a direction, a force of its own. "