7 Quotes by Fredrik Backman about depression

  • Author Fredrik Backman
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    Because you've probably been depressed yourself, you've had days when you've been in terrible pain in places that don't show up in X-rays, when you can't find the words to explain it even to the people who love you. Deep down, in memories that we might prefer to suppress even from ourselves, a lot of us know that the difference between us and that man on the bridge is smaller than we might wish.

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  • Author Fredrik Backman
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    Because it's possible to end your life by mistake, but you have to choose to jump. You have to climb on top of somewhere high and take a step forwards.You're a decent person.

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  • Author Fredrik Backman
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    But we can measure an evaluate the cost of depression. And we know that it's very common for people suffering from depression to be afraid of feeling happy. Because even depression can be a sort of secure bubble, it can make you start to think, if I'm not unhappy, if I'm not angry - who am I then?

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    We've created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we're going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.

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  • Author Fredrik Backman
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    Because you've probably been depressed yourself, you've had days when you've been in terrible pain in places that don't show up in X-rays, when you can't find the words to explain it even to the people who love you.

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