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" In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration,
is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable
is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come – not in a day, an hour, a month,
or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more
pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting
from one annoying situation to another less annoying – or from discomfort to
relative comfort, or from boredom to activity – but moving from pain to pain.
One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it
wherever one goes. "
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