The Black Dog

Depression

"Pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because it cannot be borne."

Darkness Visible, William Styron, 1991, Picador, London

"Normal Sadness is to depression what normal growth is to cancer."

Malignant Sadness – The Anatomy of Depression, Lewis Wolpert, 2001, Faber and Faber

"Depression is a word ... “That has slithered through the language like a slug, leaving little trace of its intrinsic malevolence and preventing by its very insipidity, a general awareness of the horrible intensity of the disease out of control.”"

Darkness Visible, William Styron, 1991, Picador, London

"I've been to hell, young man ... you've only read about it."

Marquis de Sade to Abbe de Coulmier, Quills

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Nigel