Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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