"Depression is a prison where
you are both the suffering
prisoner and the cruel jailer."
-Dorothy Rowe
This quote means that when you're depressed you are suffering from hurt as well as the one causing it. 'Cruel jailer' trying to reveal that you are the one punishing yourself by holding on to whatever it is that is causing you pain. 'Suffering prisoner' is explaining how that when you are punishing yourself you are also suffering because you take the abuse you are giving to yourself.
...for this quotation I think someone who maybe write stories or poems would be saying this. It gives 'depression' a face and makes it relatable which is what a lot of authors/poets do....
Dorothy Rowe is a psychologist and author who main interest is depression. She spent many years working with depressed patients and doesn't believe in the clinical definition of mental illness but instead beliefs that 'depression is a result of beliefs ...".
...now that I know who Dorothy Rowe is and a little about her I can understand a little more on why she wrote this quote and what it means. Since she believes that depression comes from peoples beliefs I think by linking someones thoughts to a prisoner as well as a jailer she is telling us that we trap memories/beliefs which leads us to a state of 'jailing' ourselves into depression...
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