29 Quotes by Thomas Lewis

Total self-sufficiency turns out to be a daydream whose bubble is burst by the sharp edge of the limbic brain. Stability means finding people who regulate you well and staying near them.

Like any other momentous shift in emotion, depression is not an occupation by a foreign army; it is civil insurrection, the subversion of identity’s republic from within. A depressed person loses more than energy and appetite – he loses himself and the capacity to make the decisions his former, pre-coup self would have made.