"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode."

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Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

William Styron

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