Quotes by : Sally Brampton

A friend called the other day.'How are you?' she said.The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue.....

I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly....

Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.....

The terrible truth about depression, and the part of its nature that terrifies me the most, is that it....

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring....

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long,....

I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than....

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus,....

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.