“”if you have pneumonia, would you try to cure yourself?”

no.

he shrugged. “so why do you think you can cure your own depression?”

why? because i thought i could manage my own mind. it never occurred to me that i was suffering from an illness over which, by that time, i had little or no control. i knew nothing about depression. all i knew was that i had fought my head for a year, and i had lost.”

-sally brampton, shoot the damn dog

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