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#5

"If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation, depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do."

-Stephen Fry

"A Failure is not a loss. It's a gain. You learn. You change. You grow."

"I'm beginning to realize how little I mean to everyone and it's pretty fucking painful."

"Things I don't understand:

-Why our grades determine how smart we are

-Why some people are considered beautiful and others not

-Why people say they love us and then leave

-Why people are mean to each other

-Why people fall in love with their eyes

-War"

"It's okay to lose yourself for a litle while. In books, in music, in art. Let yourself get lost."

"When I die, don't come to my grave and sit there for hours, telling me how much you love and miss me, because those are the things I wanted to hear when I could still hear..."

"One day you'll meet a guy. And ultimately, he is going to find out. How you chew, how you sip, how you smell at every point in the day, how your face looks when you cry, how you love chocolate, how you can be really weird at times, how certain shows make you really happy, how cranky you can get when you're tired or hungry, how you think you look bad in all your photos. He is going to know everything about you. And you know what? He is still going to love you for you."

"Having a mental disorder makes you see the world in a different way

You notice things normal people don't

Like the faint scars on people's arms

The emptiness in their eyes

The way they smile with their mouths, but not with their eyes

The anxiousness they feel when having to eat in front of others

Just little things most people would look over

but you notice

because they're just like you"

"Before you kill yourself, just remember that there are

places you have not been

and things you have not seen,

and poems to awe,

art to draw,

fields to walk through,

people to talk to,

music to take in,

games to win,

and books to be read

So why,

oh why,

do you wish

to be dead?"

"Your skin isn't paper, don't cut it!

Your face isn't a mask, don't cover it!

Your size isn't a book, don't judge it"

Your life isn't a movie, don't end it!"

"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience, a room in hell with only your name on the door."