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Andrew Solomon Quotes

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Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

Strength Depression Weakness Mark

There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.

Life Time Depression People Think

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good.

Change Good Parenting Child You She

We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.

Love Love Is More Need Shapes Asset

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

Children Myself Simple Reality Feel

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

Parenting Sport Perfectionists

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

Time Depression Silence Energy Up

The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and writing is primarily an exercise in doing just that - the clearer people's inherent dignity becomes.

Mistake People Writing Doing Look

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

Experience Parents People Frustration

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Happiness Depression Say Opposite

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

Happiness Depression World Think You

I would have had an easier life if I were straight, but I would not be me. And I now like being myself better than the idea of being someone else, someone who, to be honest, I have neither the option of being nor the ability fully to imagine.

Life Myself Me Better Being Myself

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