“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary… — Alina N. Feld Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won't; and she… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
“We all enter into fallow periods in our lives, times of questioning, of crisis, of not-knowing; times of depression, stagnation, terror and… — Jane Meredith Copy Share Image
“This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. I had a 93 average and I was holding my head… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of… — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
“Adolescent Warning Signs Lack of peer relationships outside the family Anxiety in social situations Difficulty with social skills such as keeping a… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
Everyone has some secret and some source of pain or sadness and I just said mine first and then everybody went after… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
“Many of the benefits of CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) can be obtained without going into therapy. There are a number of self-help… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Claudia reported that her depression eventually passed and she began to do more and get out more. She went back to work… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but I am always so tired. Tired of trying to fake a smile every day. Tired of getting… — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“Depression is a type of underlying mindset that develops from within, above and beyond even our consciousness. It is our mental and… — Ronnie Worsham Copy Share Image
“There was a lot about my life that was crappy, now that I couldn't talk. But if I hadn't gotten drunk that… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
Almost all my life Ive been frightened and afraid, Ive been best friends with a razor blade with the fissure on my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
“He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
“I was in way too deep. I was cut in so many places that I felt like I was bleeding out from… — Alisa Mullen Copy Share Image
In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The blade dont make scars, the people who bully people make scars, depression makes scars, love makes scars, being judged make scars,… — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems?… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“I don’t belong here. I know that. But I don’t belong anywhere else, either. And that is at the heart of the… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don’t, because part of our ability to survive and not to… — Anthony Greenwald Copy Share Image
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and was so disappointed and disgusted by what you saw, that you wanted… — Jenn F Copy Share Image
“Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Because I have suffered from depression and anxiety for so much of my life, it has turned into a constant manifestation that… — Madisyn Taylor Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
You can't beat yourself up over being depressed. Because then you're not only depressed, but you're also beating yourself up about it… — Brian Quinn Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
![“From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so…” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9db/ella-baker-10989_advancement_from-the-cooperative-league-i-suppose-wi_1412930.jpg)
