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Andrew Solomon Quote: “In typical circumstances, to have children who won’t care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.”

201. “In typical circumstances, to have children who won’t care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.”

202. “I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it.”

203. “That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “If your love didn’t always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.”

204. “If your love didn’t always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.”

205. “I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.”

206. “I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.”

207. “The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.”

208. “I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “The only way to find out whether you’re depressed is to listen to and watch yourself, to feel your feelings and then think about them. If you feel bad without reason most of the time, you’re depressed. If you feel bad most of the time with reason, you’re also depressed, though changing the reasons may be a better way forward than leaving circumstance alone and attacking the depression. If the depression is disabling to you, then it’s major.”

209. “The only way to find out whether you’re depressed is to listen to and watch yourself, to feel your feelings and then think about them. If you feel bad without reason most of the time, you’re depressed. If you feel bad most of the time with reason, you’re also depressed, though changing the reasons may be a better way forward than leaving circumstance alone and attacking the depression. If the depression is disabling to you, then it’s major.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I guess being depressed all the time was actually a relatively safe place to be. I didn’t have the real-world worries that everyone else has because I knew that I simply couldn’t function well enough to take care of myself. What do I do now? Trying to break the habits of years of depression is what I’m doing for the moment with my doctor.”

210. “I guess being depressed all the time was actually a relatively safe place to be. I didn’t have the real-world worries that everyone else has because I knew that I simply couldn’t function well enough to take care of myself. What do I do now? Trying to break the habits of years of depression is what I’m doing for the moment with my doctor.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I’d had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.”

211. “I’d had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I was walking down the street today,” she said, “and I thought, I am probably dying. And then I thought, should we have cherries or pears at lunch? And the two things felt too much the same.”

212. “I was walking down the street today,” she said, “and I thought, I am probably dying. And then I thought, should we have cherries or pears at lunch? And the two things felt too much the same.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I have no ambitions. I only have obsessions.”

213. “I have no ambitions. I only have obsessions.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “It is mad for adolescents to rage at parents who have done their best, but it is a conventional madness, uniform enough so that we tolerate it relatively unquestioningly.”

214. “It is mad for adolescents to rage at parents who have done their best, but it is a conventional madness, uniform enough so that we tolerate it relatively unquestioningly.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before.”

215. “I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “When I said that I had a history of mental illness, I was told that in that case I could not well expect anyone to take my views on these things seriously. “I’m a trained professional and I’m here to help you,” the doctor said. When I said that I was an experienced patient and knew that what she was doing was in fact injurious to me, she told me that I had not been to medical school and would just have to proceed according to what she judged an appropriate protocol.”

216. “When I said that I had a history of mental illness, I was told that in that case I could not well expect anyone to take my views on these things seriously. “I’m a trained professional and I’m here to help you,” the doctor said. When I said that I was an experienced patient and knew that what she was doing was in fact injurious to me, she told me that I had not been to medical school and would just have to proceed according to what she judged an appropriate protocol.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I believe that the emergency room policy in which saying “I have had severe psychotic depression exacerbated by extreme pain” is treated much the same as saying “I have to have a woolly teddy bear with me before you can use sutures” is unacceptable.”

217. “I believe that the emergency room policy in which saying “I have had severe psychotic depression exacerbated by extreme pain” is treated much the same as saying “I have to have a woolly teddy bear with me before you can use sutures” is unacceptable.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “Suicide is not the result of passivity; it is the result of an action taken. It requires a great deal of energy and a strong will in addition to a belief in the permanence of the present bad moment and at least a touch of impulsivity.”

218. “Suicide is not the result of passivity; it is the result of an action taken. It requires a great deal of energy and a strong will in addition to a belief in the permanence of the present bad moment and at least a touch of impulsivity.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “I could not bring myself to believe in any love enough to imagine that the loss of me would be noticed, but I knew how sad it would be for him to have worked so hard at saving me and not to have succeeded.”

219. “I could not bring myself to believe in any love enough to imagine that the loss of me would be noticed, but I knew how sad it would be for him to have worked so hard at saving me and not to have succeeded.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can’t cope with your personal life; it is courageous.”

220. “To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can’t cope with your personal life; it is courageous.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “To want to kill yourself, however, requires a whole extra level of passion and a certain directed violence.”

221. “To want to kill yourself, however, requires a whole extra level of passion and a certain directed violence.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “There are fine but important distinctions between wanting to be dead, wanting to die, and wanting to kill yourself.”

222. “There are fine but important distinctions between wanting to be dead, wanting to die, and wanting to kill yourself.”

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Andrew Solomon Quote: “You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it.”

223. “You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it.”

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