Book
The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon
- Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. (Location 259)
- “Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss.” (Location 1162)
- Insofar as depression and anxiety are genetically determined, they share a single set of genes (which are tied to the genes for alcoholism). (Location 1167)
- were psychosocial, they would require a psychosocial treatment; nor that if the causes were biological, they would require a biological treatment,” Ellen Frank of the University of Pittsburgh has said. It is striking that patients who recover from depression by means of psychotherapy show the same biological changes—in, (Location 1869)