We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The mornings were the worst. Roger told me this was Classic Depressive. He said that mornings were generally the most trying part… — Suzanne Scanlon Copy Share Image
“the luxury vacations had come as a personal affront to a woman who had survived the Great Depression, a world war, the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots,… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “The same… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot… — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control,… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
“In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I like when wind works. But in this depression, does anything work? If it’s not unemployed, it’s broken. When I hear the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Do you know what’s so great about clinging to hope? Hope is like a strong cord, a lifeline that stretches straight from… — Linda Evans Shepherd Copy Share Image
“There are more subtle ways we can contribute to depression too. For example, our misguided beliefs might lead us to think that… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a little sad sometimes its too hard to smile sometimes theres nothing to smile about.. what do you do when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy,… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
We can give space to someone's depression. We can love them; we can honor - we can just eat some noodles, we… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“You will remember that every psychological or inner state finds some outer representation via the moving centre—that is, it is represented in… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
“It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
“I feel these forbidden thoughts creep in sometimes without warning. Slow thoughts that always start quietly, like whispers you're not even sure… — Amber Smith Copy Share Image
“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The extremes between world hunger and obesity. People who argue we are in a recession and really have no time to worry… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I don’t exist metal pressed to pages spilling blood, ink in vein each thought rages Sunlight shooting through a forest of pines… — Abby Musgrove Copy Share Image
When you're mired in the depths of depression, it's impossible to believe that anything can get better, but it can and it… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Everyone suffers, we're all caught in a vicious circle of anguish and distress, passed on from abused generation to abused generation. The… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses… — Lucy Moore Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
Yes I can smile, but it's so easy to fake it. Yes I can act like I'm happy, but inside I'm falling… — Ester Escalante Copy Share Image
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