“Setbacks do not happen to threaten a relapse, a mental breakdown or a full-blown depressive episode but to strengthen the process of your recovery by a gentle reminder: Your mental illness is not a personal failure.”
— Juansen Dizon, A Gentle Reminder
“I wasn’t kind, but I wasn’t unkind either. I wasn’t anything I guess. I wasn’t anything to anyone at all. I was nothing, a sort of non-being and I just wanted to fall asleep during the day. I let my face drown in the darkness of the pillow and tried to think that it was already night. I was in so much hopelessness. I literally couldn’t walk. I had this body that I needed to clean, feed and control but just thinking about those things made me feel very tired.”
— Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 25
“To love your own sadness as if it were something more precious than gold is what it means to be a melancholic person. Melancholy is the intimate nature you have with your sorrow. Melancholy is the enlightenment you experience when it comes to being lost.”
— Juansen Dizon, Melancholic
“Self-love is a process. It will require time. It will require patience. It will require change, solitude, pain and everything that isn’t much pretty in this life. But in the end, it will be worth it. It will be beautiful. It will be you.”
— Juansen Dizon, A Process
