1. 18 November 2009
    “I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  2. 04 November 2009
    “A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  3. 21 September 2009
    “I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  4. 11 August 2009
    “A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they’ve all let him down.”
    Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

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  5. 29 July 2009
    “You ain’t the only one who feels like this world left you far behind /
    I don’t know why you gotta be angry all the time /”
    Tim McGraw, Angry All the Time

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  6. 30 June 2009
    “Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can’t do anything about it.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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  7. 26 June 2009
    “This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.”
    Charlie Brown, Charles Schultz

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  8. 07 May 2009
    “Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. Sometimes I wish there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after. Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was all right for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. Certainly deceit and treachery in both romantic and political relationships is nothing new, but at one time, it was bad, callous, and cold to hurt somebody. Now it’s just the way things go, part of the growth process.”
    Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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  9. 28 April 2009
    “Rap was a natural resource, might as well pay for sunlight or the very breeze or an early-morning car alarm going off. No, I spent my money on music for moping. Perfect for drifting off on the divan with a damp towel on your forehead, a minor-chord soundtrack as you moaned into reflecting pools about your elaborate miserableness. The singers were faint, androgynous ghosts, dragging their too-heavy chains across the plains of misery, the gloomy moors of discontent, in search of relief.”
    Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor 

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  10. 14 February 2009
    “So if you wanna burn yourself, remember that I love you /
    And if you wanna cut yourself, remember that I love you /
    And if you wanna kill yourself, remember that I love you /
    Call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead /
    Send me an IM, I’ll be your friend /”
    Kimya Dawson, Loose Lips

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