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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“...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
“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
“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
“In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“If you can begin to see that your thoughts are not the real thing – they’re just thoughts, and as thoughts they… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
“People talk about how fast life can go from good to bad. How on day you're happy, everything is going fine, and… — Laura M. Flynn Copy Share Image
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“A depression settled over me, encasing me in a gray haze. I couldn’t skip school anymore; my boyfriend came home from boot… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw a psychologist once because I thought I had depression. It cost me $100. When I left, I realised that there's… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“It was a gift. What did I do with it? Life didn't accumulate as I'd once imagined. I graduated from boarding school,… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You say that everyone has depression at some point in their life. No. You have never had depression, or you would understand… — Hannah Cole Copy Share Image
“We normally think of the expressions on our face as the reflection of an inner state. I feel happy, so I smile.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Open the GIFTS actually came out of this quest. I ended up going into a pretty deep depression that people don't know… — Kim Coles Copy Share Image
“The non-disclosure of emotional pain can be deeply traumatic. It leads to depression. In such situations of vulnerability, one must choose to… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious,… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
“But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You… — Robert Kurvitz Copy Share Image
Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart that aches with depression and knifes with planitude of bitter pain, A life that thought that hope with… — Michael Lee Copy Share Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
She is broken.The kids in her school call her worthless, ugle, fat, cunt, bitch, etc.They also tell her that she is not… — Page Copy Share Image
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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