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[nbcf]

"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would be not one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell. I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better it appears to me."
--Abraham Lincoln

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[trapsparky]

i just read this quote the other day, too. also, a lot of stuff about winston churchill's black dog (which i kind of like a lot, because i think it embodies some of the more complicated aspects of depression, like the almost-comforting familiarity of it and the sense that depression can feel weirdly protective at times). somewhere it said churchill used to lay bricks to combat his depression, and that made sense, too.

[nbcf]

Yeah Churchill is a particularly interesting fellow in this regard. I wonder when people like him or Twain or lincoln dealt with this shit if they drew upon others as we do. and I wonder if people now-adays are more aware of this for lack of a better word positive side of depression. Here's a quote from some drunken asshole
"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."