We can love someone without understanding that person.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.