It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with..

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave..

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women..

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it t….

I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow ….

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful..

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus.

Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are b….

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all..

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real -….

It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is sup….

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be ter….

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I f….

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’….

Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it beco….

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, a….

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning..

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will ….

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gen….

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved..