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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, Never real and always true, and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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