活下去的理由中英译本分享
1. 你以为来到了外星球，没人能理解你经受的痛苦。但实际上，他们理解。你觉得他们不理解，是因为你唯一的参照点是自己。你从未经受过这种痛苦，滑入深渊的冲击令你胆战心惊。然而，还有其他人来过这里。在那片黑暗之中，有上千万人与你同行。2. 你已经有自杀的想法了，情况不会变得更糟了，以后只会有上坡路。3. 你恨自己。这是因为你敏感。估计每个人都会找到恨自己的理由，如果他们想得跟你一样多的话。其实我们每个人全都是混蛋，也都是美妙的天使。4. 你有一个标签，“抑郁症”，那又如何？其实如果问对了专业人士，每个人都会有一个标签。5. 你觉得一切都将变得更糟，但这种感觉只是你的症状。6. 头脑有它自己的天气系统。虽然你现在身处龙卷风之中，但龙卷风的能量最终会被耗尽的。坚持住。7. 无视偏见。每一种疾病都曾招来偏见。我们害怕得病，于是恐惧滋生偏见。比如，脊髓灰质炎曾被错误地指为穷人才会患的疾病。而抑郁症常被人认为是一种“软弱”或性格缺陷。8. 没有什么会一成不变。现在这种痛苦不会永远持续。如果痛苦告诉你它会持续，是它在撒谎。其实痛苦是一笔债，可以用时间偿清。9. 头脑会变。性格会变。我在《人类》（The Humans）中写过：“你的头脑是一个星系，黑暗比光明多，但光明是值得等待的，所以不要结束自己的生命，即使黑暗是全部。要知道生命不是静止的，时间也是空间，你在时间的星系中移动，等待那恒星。”10. 有一天，你会体验到与这痛苦相等的喜悦。听海滩男孩的歌曲，你会流下欢欣的泪。你会俯身凝视怀里婴儿酣睡的脸，你会结识很多好朋友，你会品尝从没吃过的美食，你会在高处俯览美景，不去考虑从这里掉下去摔死的可能性。还有很多书你没有读过，它们会让你更充实。你会吃着超大份爆米花看很多电影。你会跳舞、大笑、做爱、沿着河岸跑步、聊天到深夜、笑到肚子疼。生活在等待着你。虽然你现在被短暂地困在这里，但世界哪儿都不去。如果可以，坚持下去。活着总是值得的。You are on another planet. No one understands what you are going through. But actually, they do. You don’t think they do because the only reference point is yourself. You have never felt this way before, and the shock of the descent is traumatising you, but others have been here. You are in a dark, dark land with a population of millions.
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Things aren’t going to get worse. You want to kill yourself. That is as low as it gets. There is only upwards from here.
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You hate yourself. That is because you are sensitive. Pretty much every human could find a reason to hate themselves if they thought about it as much as you did. We’re all total bastards, us humans, but also totally wonderful.
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So what, you have a label? ‘Depressive’. Everyone would have a label if they asked the right professional.
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That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.
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Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.
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Ignore stigma. Every illness had stigma once. We fear getting ill, and fear tends to lead to prejudice before information. Polio used to be erroneously blamed on poor people, for instance. And depression is often seen as a ‘weakness’ or personality failing.
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Nothing lasts for ever. This pain won’t last. The pain tells you it will last. Pain lies. Ignore it. Pain is a debt paid off with time.
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Minds move. Personalities shift. To quote myself, from The Humans: ‘Your mind is a galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. Which is to say, don’t kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.’
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You will one day experience joy that matches this pain. You will cry euphoric tears at the Beach Boys, you will stare down at a baby’s face as she lies asleep in your lap, you will make great friends, you will eat delicious foods you haven’t tried yet, you will be able to look at a view from a high place and not assess the likelihood of dying from falling. There are books you haven’t read yet that will enrich you, films you will watch while eating extra-large buckets of popcorn, and you will dance and laugh and have sex and go for runs by the river and have late-night conversations and laugh until it hurts. Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.
生命不是静止的，时间也是空间，你在时间的星系中移动，等待那恒星 学英语了
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