“One November morning, a preacher named Charles Spurgeon used his sermon to describe harmful helpers who like to tell the depressed, “Oh! You should not feel like this!” Or “Oh! You should not speak such words, nor think such thoughts.” Then, he offered a strong word of advocacy for sufferers of depression. “It is not easy to tell how another ought to feel and how another ought to act,” he said. We are different, each one of us; but I am sure there is one thing in which we are all brought to unite in times of deep sorrow, namely, in a sense of helplessness.”
—Zack Eswine
“I am the subject of depressions of spirit so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. We very speedily care for bodily diseases; they are too painful to let us slumber in silence: and they soon urge us to seek a physician or a surgeon for our healing. Oh, if we were as much alive to the more serious wounds of our inner man. Personally I know that there is nothing on earth that the human frame can suffer to be compared with despondency and prostration of mind.”
—CH Spurgeon