“Step 7: Still maintain a supportive attitude Q: Still? We still need to pay attention to this thing's feelings and respond to its questions and care about its ideas? Yes. Q: Why? Because that's what it needs. Q: Why, though? Because it is a person. And people need somebody who cares about them. Q: It's a person? Yes. Everybody is a person.” HealingCompassionAcceptanceSelf LoveDepression Book:Solutions and Other Problems Source: Solutions and Other Problems
“Nobody can guarantee that it's going to be okay, but- and I don't know if this will be comforting to anyone else- the possibility exists that there's a piece of corn on a floor somewhere that will make you just as confused about why you are laughing as you have ever been about why you are depressed. And even if everything still seems like hopeless bullshit, maybe it's just pointless bullshit or weird bullshit, or possibly not even bullshit. I don't know. But when you're concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.” HopeDepressionLaughter Book:Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Source: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened