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Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon
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While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it. Andrew Solomon
You Experience People Frustration Old Parents Young Fact Troubling Been Cannot Which While Young People Elders Old People Your Describe
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse. Andrew Solomon
Depression Time Silence Energy Worse About Takes Make Does Exhausting Up Much Really Your
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. Andrew Solomon
Happiness Depression You World Bad Mood Think Mood Has-Been Bad Seeing Through Haze Taken Put Veil Been Truly Now Away Gray
Parenting is no sport for perfectionists. Andrew Solomon
Parenting Perfectionists Sport
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better than to be young. Andrew Solomon
Life Maturity Better Young Stage Nothing Older Every Others Everyone Would Like Longs Than Eager
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral values in them. But you also need to celebrate your child for who he or she is and make them feel really good. Andrew Solomon
Good Parenting You Change Celebrate Values Moral Moral Values He He Or She Instill Feel Involves Also She Make Educate Child Them Really Separate Your Your Child Who Activities Two Need
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life. Andrew Solomon
Life Depression Business Lost One Of The Things Disabled Feel Knows Frequently Condition Person Gets Often Ordinary Depressed Descriptions Ludicrous Things
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port. Andrew Solomon
Life World Made Late Teenagers Kid Possibility Constant Attack Always Caught Escape Get American Sending Soviet Going Afraid Little Little Kid Vietnam Plans Even Port Nuclear Draft Imagined
A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine. Andrew Solomon
Life You Experience Remember Everyday Life Own Everyday State Mine Mental My Own Prevents Point Involves Doing Normal Normal Things Getting Breakdown Which Your Things
Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks. Andrew Solomon
Great Stress Every Chronically Way Bad Responsible Bad Way Indulgence Hours Lot Get Being Eight Breaks Depressive Levels Every Night Night Raises Sleep
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order. Andrew Solomon
You People World Sense Think Distinction Distinctions Threat Between Most Comfortable Female Male Questioning Begin Represents Being Order Orderly Social Social Order Basic
Latino kids are not rejected by their parents for being Latino, nor are most Muslims disowned by their parents for being Muslims, but those who are gay are often the target of their families' disapprobation or outright hostility. Andrew Solomon
Gay Parents Those Latino Kids Muslims Outright Hostility Most Nor Target Families Often Being Who Rejected
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time. Andrew Solomon
Love Time Pure Reading Every Every Time Intrigued Someone Drift Abstraction Attention Narratives His Off Endlessly Human Hold Stories Story Formulate Helping Lives Her
It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do. Andrew Solomon
Depression Important Changes Say Seem Repeated Brain Irreversible While Depressive Create Episodes Biological Medications
When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country. Andrew Solomon
You Hate People Country Build Down Moral Borders Only Toward Also Attractive Lot Effective Up Very Close Social Means Your Standpoint Helping Helping People Defending
I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished. Andrew Solomon
Life Experience Fear Decision Made My Life Rule Kid Easily Kind Some Determine Deliberate Point Accomplished Very Going
My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate my bravado. I haven't been on the front lines. I haven't ever stepped on a land mine. Andrew Solomon
People Tolerance Mine High Exaggerate Some Risk Higher Stepped Been Lines Than Bravado Front Front Lines Want Land Ever Nearly
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood. Andrew Solomon
Myself Family Gay Be True Long Has-Been Tortured Hoping Able Fact Through Adulthood True Period Because Surprise Been Up Children Wanted Really Growing Nicest Growing Up Kept
Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet. Andrew Solomon
Gay Blame Simple Will Free Party Hats Someday Simple Fact Fact Being
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality. Andrew Solomon
Happiness Depression Say Vitality Opposite Often
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I've met through this. It's who I am. Andrew Solomon
Life Gay Wonderful World Amazing Husband Met Think Through Most Most Amazing Am Friends Wonderful Thing Being Who Now Thing
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales. Andrew Solomon
Me Parents Remind Prince Wales Usual
Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university I attended assigns the book and invited me to be a guest lecturer. Andrew Solomon
Me Class Book Writing Guest Attended Weird Weird Thing Invited Demon Lecturer Which Depressive Turned Professional Thing University
When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things. Andrew Solomon
Depression Strength Beauty Draw Find Am Depressed Such Things Things
The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography. Andrew Solomon
You Honesty Honesty Is Problem Mysteries Past Complete Stuff Reveal Accumulate Autobiography Them Your Even Present
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative. Andrew Solomon
Love Love Is More Imperative Finite Shapes Genetic Come Involves Families Than Sizes Acknowledge Multiple Asset Need

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