In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time. . . volunteering … - Sally Brampton

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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Sally Brampton

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time. . . volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

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"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence. "

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. . . it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

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As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

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I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

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