“Suicidal depression is a state of cold, agitated horror and relentless despair. The things that you most love in life leach away. Everything is an effort, all day and throughout the night. There is no hope, no point, no nothing.”
– Kay Redfield Jamison, author of “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness” and “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide,” in her New York Times op-ed “To Know Suicide: Depression Can Be Treated, but It Takes Competence.”