Pretending to be passionate when we are truly depressed doesn’t help. Numbing our feelings only makes things worse. Depression taught me to experience all of my feelings and not push them aside.

Blocking our feelings and pretending they aren’t there doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Telling a person who is depressed to have positive thoughts is the same as telling a sick person not to be sick. It doesn’t work.

Someone can take away my job, but they can only take away my courage if I let them.