“It was the worst experience of my life. More terrible even than watching my wife die of cancer. I am ashamed to admit that my depression felt worse than her death but it is true. I was in a state that bears no resemblance to anything I had experienced before. It was not just feeling very low, depressed in the commonly used sense of the word. I was seriously ill.”
Professor Lewis Wolpert, CBE, Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
(Malignant sadness: the anatomy of depression, London, Faber and Faber, 2001)
http://bluepages.anu.edu.au/symptoms/experiences/
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