Quotes from John Moe

there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.

I want to share all this in one place because if we talk, things get better, and more people we love might stick around so we can love them more.

bit is about how an intrusive suicidal ideation can show up when you least expect it, how true deep despair appears out of nowhere. That is terrifying because it feels like a killer on the loose.

Yes, there is discrimination against people with mental illness and, yes, it can be a scary thing to talk about. But the hunger to do so is there, and by being open yourself you can get that conversation out on the dance floor.

Depressed people have an urge to make good things into ugly messes to better match their state of mind.

it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high.

I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some music, so I did both. I put on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz and a CD of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN YOU PLAY THEM BOTH TOGETHER, YOU GET ALL THE ANSWERS.

Apparently Jeff Bezos thought this business model was a great idea, so much so that he acquired an e-card company of his own. My job was to take what I could from that acquired site and build a new Amazon e-card site. And I was expected to have it all up and running in a few months. It was like being told to build an airplane, but with no blueprints, and also you're a cocker spaniel.

There is reason for optimism when one moves from ignorance to understanding but no guarantees.

There's a kind of facile response that normies have when they hear about saddies going to bed and staying there. The normies think that it's about being bummed out or lazy. That may be a factor for some, but a much more common reason is that, again, we're exhausted.

Having a brain spinning like that, having a brain bottoming out like that, carrying around that psychic baggage all the time—it wears you out.

The body might be expending very little actual energy, but the mind is running a marathon combined with an obstacle course. Are you depressed and find yourself tired all the time? That may be because you do a decathlon every day.