• Despair is a sense of hoeplessness about a person's entire life and future. When extreme hopelessness seeps into all the corners of our lives and combines with extreme sadness, we feel despair.

• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 102

Someone believes that there is no end to what we're experiencing is a desperate and claustrophbic feeling. We can't figure a way out or through the struggle and the suffering.

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 102

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