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A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.
Andrew Solomon
LifeExperienceDoingRememberYou
Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.
GreatStressSleepNightBadWay
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better than to be young.
LifeMaturityBetterYoungNothing
My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.
WorkFatherOperaUsedStepmother
We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.
SecurityNeverHumanRightsAfford
I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.
MindMeBrainShortPlanKnowing
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
MotherRelationshipMyselfThought
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
LifeBusinessDepressionFeelPerson
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
ParentsGrowMeaningFindDownKids
I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.
ChildrenAngelBetterFlawsLiving
People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.
PeopleUnderstandDifferentDealing
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
FoodWeatherMeanLiteracyCome
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