bushofireee's blog post

So during my recent searchings on depression (oh joy, what a lovely subject matter), I stumbled across a number of Stephen Fry quotes.. What a hell of a man. It's amazing to think how he has suffered so tremendously with mental health issues, yet has remained a character which I'm sure we can all look up to and hold in high esteem. I love watching his interviews, reading his words and I could happily spend hours, days, weeks and years trying to absorb everything that he has to offer.
Back to the subject of depression, well, I found a video and a couple of quotes that I found relevant to myself:



Yep. I have mental health issues too. Few people know this as it's something I've hidden away for a long, long time. I have a doctors appointment next week for my other health condition (hurrah, more problems!), and will be seeking guidance from my doctor on therapy and counselling. Fun times ahead!



"The symptoms of depression aren’t personal. Depression makes it difficult for a person to connect on a deep emotional level with anyone, even the people he or she loves most. In addition, depressed people often say hurtful things and lash out in anger. Remember that this is the depression talking, not your loved one, so try not to take it personally."



...moving on, time for some quotes from Mr. Fry on a much lighter note:


"In a very harsh world, we need ice cream."


"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."

"The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is."

"The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore."

"Swearing is a really important part of one’s life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enjoying swearing… There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary -such utter nonsense. The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies and the kind of person who says swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary usually have a pretty poor vocabulary themselves… The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest or -is just a fucking lunatic… I haven’t met anybody who’s truly shocked at swearing, really, they’re only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that’s preposterous… or they say ‘it’s not necessary’. As if that should stop one doing it! It’s not necessary to have coloured socks, it’s not necessary for this cushion to be here, but is anyone going to write in and say ‘I was shocked to see that cushion there, it really wasn’t necessary’? No, things not being necessary is what makes life interesting -the little extras in life."

...and with that, I think this is one hell of a lengthy blog that is just about done.



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