#ReasonsToStayAlive
Depression is . . .
An internal war. A black dog (thanks, Winston Churchill and Dr Johnson). A black hole. An invisible fire. A pressure cooker. A devil inside. A prison. An absence. A bell jar (‘I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar,’ wrote Plath, ‘stewing in my own sour air’). A malicious code in the operating system of your mind. A parallel universe. A life-long fight. A by-product of mortality. A living nightmare. An echo chamber. Dark and hopeless and lonely. 179
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A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology). A fucking pain.
Text copyright Matt Haig www.reasonstostayalive.co.uk
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