"What words and terms might be applied to describe and assess such a solipsistic, self-consumed, endless emotional vacuum as she now appeared to herself to be? How was she to decide and describe - even to herself, looking inward and facing herself - what all she’d so painfully learned said about her?"

“The Depressed Person.” Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. David Foster Wallace.

This whole story describes depression so completely it causes flashbacks for me. The tedium, the grinding down, the loss of affect. Not a good time for me to be reading DFW, but hey.