Depression & bipolar
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Summer nights and long warm days
Are stolen as the old moon falls
And the mirror shows another face
Another place to hide it all
—Chris Cornell
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Darkness has a hunger
that’s insatiable
And lightness has a call
that’s hard to hear
—Indigo Girls
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But oh, ain't the nighttime
so lovely to see?
Don't all the night birds
sing sweetly?
You'll never know how happy I'll be
When the sun's going down
—Gillian Welch
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Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.
Blown from the dark hill
hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Life’s water flows from darkness.
Search the darkness,
don’t run from it.
Night travelers are full of light,
and you are, too;
don’t leave this companionship.
—Rumi
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Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
—Simon & Garfunkel
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I know the darkness pulls on you
But it's just a point of view
—Brandi Carlile
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality.
—Andrew Solomon
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In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus
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One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Sunset
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Poem: I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Poem: Not so far as the forest
Depression, the secret we share
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
You have permission to be miserable
The mindful way through depression
Touched with fire: bipolar and the artistic temperament
Unholy ghost: writers on depression