“In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is
unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy
will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even
more than pain that crushes the soul.”

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"Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray
drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.”
William Styron
(1925 - 2006)

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