This might be controversial, but sometimes I think that…

“Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person…

— Arthur Kleinman

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

— Dennis Lehane

Clinical depression passes but it's tough, it's very tough.

— Brenda Fricker

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

— Alexandra Stoddard

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

— Molly Ringwald

When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one other Christian…

— Sheila Walsh

My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because, you know,…

— Cord Jefferson

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the…

— Evangeline Lilly

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course…

— Edward T. Welch

“Learned helplessness is a common cause of clinical depression in people who perceive they have no control over the outcomes of their life situations.”

— Janae B. Weinhold

“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities term this…

— David Foster Wallace

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing…

— Leonard Cohen

“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing…

— David Foster Wallace

“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel