Thats The Thing About Depression: A Human Being Can Survive Almost Anything, As Long As She Sees The

“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, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Are you ever so sad that you can actually feel your heart ache.”

— Unknown

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

— Joshua Graham

People want me to be joyous and celebrate life. They think that grief has an expiration date. If they truly understood the devastation of grief they wouldn’t be pushing me to celebrating life.

Talking about my grief to people daily just reminds me how I will never have them in my life. It’s not healing. It’s a repeated agonizing pain.

Funerals are not for the dead; they’re for the living.