Voices

pages 187-252

"Depression is something so unrealistic. It makes you believe these voices. You are overcome by these demons and everyone else sees through the tinted glass but YOU can see the real world, the real you, the real humanity, the real pain. The agony, you can't explain it or take a painkiller but you can just sit, unable to move or connect with reality, and you just stare, feeling anxious and nervous and ill, can't voice it, so you cut instead. That's where the real problem starts. The blood, the addiction.

This whole section of the book pretty much talked about "voices" that people suffering from depression sometimes say they hear. The voices tell them that they need to punish themselves, that they deserve the pain and suffering they're going through, and they even deserve more. That they're a failure and aren't good for anything. They can't escape the "voices" because they're so used to "listening to them". The voices come when they start over-thinking things. Once they're alone, they voices get louder and eventually the "cutter" gives in.