"Telling her that she could do anything she wanted and that she had it all going for her didn't help. ...I knew that t…"

"...love alone will not save someone from depression. You cannot simply love someone back to the safe ground of wellne…"

"I don't choose to act this way or that. I don't choose to have crushing depression or extreme manias. ...I don't choo…"

"For the longest time I thought my mom was all I needed, but there were other things that I needed to talk about that …"

"I'm becoming a worse person the longer I try to stay normal."

"There were many layers in my relationship with her during the first years of her illness... The first was love, that …"

"The tears were lessening, she was no longer crying all the time, but she was certainly far from happy. There was no j…"

"I could be there for her and I could be with her when she needed me, but I couldn't be in her. This was her battle an…"

"I was proud of who she was, not what she did. I let go. I let go."

"I have tried both prescribed help, like prescribed medication, and "self-help," better known as drug abuse. I had giv…"