Quotes & Sayings About Adolescent Depression

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My pastor mentioned Kierkegaard in a sermon only once, and it would be a long time before I discovered that there was a storied Christian who suffered from, and so in some way sanctioned, depression, rage, sarcasm, and despair - the diseases that took hold in adolescence, for which church offered no cure. — Carlene Bauer