Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sob…

Judith Guest
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Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. ✨ Judith Guest (1982). Ordinary People, p.225, Penguin
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