The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the girl who: cuts, thinks of suicide, cries herself to sleep, gets judged by everyone, fake smiles,… — Leslie Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
Yea sum times is okay to feel sad have that good stress or be angry at the world for a mement but… — Santiago Vino del Monte Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy he was controlling, that this… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Depression is not sadness, not even a state of mind, it is a (neuro)philosophical (dis)position. Beyond Pop’s bipolar oscillation between evanescent thrill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think somewhere along the line probably Tony Hancock did an interview and claimed that he was terribly depressed, and that he… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Don't let depression get the best of you, just keep calm, breath in and out, picture something fun like shoping of playing… — Chris Kings Copy Share Image
“Think about the nature of depression. Life is turned inward. You already have a sense that, for all practical purposes, God is… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages of an almost daily rain, and to know… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Throughout the human life span there remains a constant two-way interaction between psychological states and the neurochemistry of the frontal lobes, a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“What is guilt? People feel guilty when they think they have acted immorally or have hurt someone and worry that they may… — Avi Tuschman Copy Share Image
“Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I did not want to sit on the roof, though I was also aware that if I didn’t allow myself the relief… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“According to studies, empathic children are more susceptible to developing problems such as anxiety and depression in later life, especially if they… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
If I wasn't here tomorrow, would anybody care? I'm still stuck inside this sorrow, I got nothing and going nowhere. I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“Suicide and depression rates, to take one revealing statistic, have shot up in countries with the fastest-growing economies. So has the number… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Some people are obsessive with attention. And then there are the ones who just want to be left the hell alone. sometimes… — Nicole Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Rumination is a maladaptive form of self-reflection that has an addictive quality. When you’re constantly “in your head,” looping negative thoughts, brooding,… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
![“[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a8/anonymous-1_depression_w-e-need-not-become-fixated-upon-our-own_346280.jpg)
