“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“One thing they don’t tell you ’bout the blues when you got ’em, you keep on fallin’ ’cause there ain't no bottom,'… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to… — Anna White Copy Share Image
I feel like such a pathetic excuse for a human being. Do you realise how many times I have tried to stop… — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit.… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
IM SICK OF IT IVE TRIED SO HARD TO BE GOOD ENOUGH BUT NO MATTER WHAT I WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME… — Cait Copy Share Image
“There is some evidence that chronic severe depression causes some atrophy or shrinkage in the hippocampus. Depressive illness could therefore be seen… — Dr Stefan Cembrowicz Copy Share Image
“...that manic depression, far from being a liability was an advantage. It was a selected trait. If it wasn't selected for, then… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“No one can sing well, play well, or write well, without living through moments of the deepest pain and anguish. Every real… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down,… — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I spoke up about my difficulties with anxiety and depression to try to help change people's view of those problems and improve… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
If people could feel my pain they would most likely be dead in minutes I on the other hand have lived for… — Morganne Schmidt Copy Share Image
And on this day not a soul could hear the scream coming from him. not a single soul could save him from… — Travis Martin Copy Share Image
What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Do you ever have one of those days where nothing really goes wrong but you feel like you hate the world and… — April Guadalupee Copy Share Image
“I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kinds… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“So, the rationale of having written this book is to say an inspiring word to a lot of people who are hurting,… — Boniface Sagini Copy Share Image
I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of… — Bob Lepine Copy Share Image
“It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
A fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals. And if, when it happens to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind… — Abhinav .M Copy Share Image
“Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience. If you have… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“Depression for me is like a trip down into a well shaft..I wait for the tears to hit the water below and… — Shannon C. Bishop Copy Share Image
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“All he needed to do was nothing. a few moments more, and he would be with his sons now, resting in the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I think it would be best if, when you’re having suicidal thoughts of stabbing yourself, that you try to think of rainbows… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“The melancholy can be black as suicide, gray as depression, white as emptiness and blue as mood. It may appear as fear,… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
