{"quotes":[{"text":"In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears are a sign of weakness. When you are different, you are told to change. And really, what does that do? It isolates desperate, vulnerable people and creates victims.","author":"Frida R.","tags":["depression","depression-recovery","depression-stories","mental-health","mental-health","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","victims"],"id":164206,"author_id":"Frida+R."},{"text":"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["defective","defective-humans","depression","depression-stories","drugs","prozac","psychiatric-drugs","shame","treatment"],"id":360060,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["depression-mental-illness","depression","depression-stories","hold-on","life-and-sayings","moments","never-give-up","never-give-up-on-yourself"],"id":413106,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}