“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I've had cyclical depression. That's something that has been a defining feature… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Hours pass as I dream to remember the pressure of finally moving to a state of mind where nothing matters. All around… — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating -… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“[T]hough the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“I can see every day that a squirrel's perfectly at home in a world of trees. But imagine taking that squirrel and… — Mira Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
“Dark feelings churn inside me, weighing my spirit as if gray clouds were emptying their cold, drenching contents into my being. I… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of… — Leonard Gardner Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too,before others quite reasonably, and it looks as tho I felt, too,… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
“Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder. I am not afraid… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“You’d think I’d be used to this agony by now , but it always catches me off guard. Anyone who says grief… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
“The star-shreds that aggregated into the most improbable and miraculous explosion of your consciousness should be appreciated with more noble sentiments than… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Developing the courage to think negatively allows us to look at ourselves as we really are. There is a remarkable consistency in… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Depressions are a lot like snowflakes – no two are exactly alike. Some people get drunk and puke up the badness into… — Lara M. Zeises Copy Share Image
“For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its… — Nell Casey Copy Share Image
“Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel proud of myself, not because of any success I’ve achieved, but because I’m aware of all the difficulties that… — Shadi Kamal Kandil Copy Share Image
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