I love this sentence.

"While depression involves heavy burdensome feelings, despair is not
correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead marked
by a desire to get rid of the self, or put another way, by an
unwillingness to become who you fundamentally are."

This does not mean I endorse anything. I just like the sentence.

from here: http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/kierkegaard-on-the-couch/