Telling a depressed person to be happy, is like telling a person who has cancer to cure themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.” — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Any advice I might give a depressed person comes in the form of cyanide, and usually is a bit hard for them… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
To judge a person the best thing is just stop talking and if he/she comes to know that ur depressed then that… — Abhishek Jain Copy Share Image
A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“A person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their arms grow back" may be the best description I've ever read… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to accept the reality that as a chronically depressed person, I can be in two states of mind at the… — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself,… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks… — Thalia Zedek Copy Share Image
“My depression points to my not knowing how to lose - I have perhaps been unable to find a valid compensation for… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“A depressed person is selfish because her self, the very core of who she is, will not leave her alone, and she… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“When dealing with a depression the problem is not to bring the depressed person back to his/her normality, to reintegrate behavior in… — Franco Bifo Berardi Copy Share Image
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“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
“I'd accomplished something today, and I was proud for about five minutes. I was smiling to myself, despite my life being in… — Cara Dee Copy Share Image
“It appears that the picture of DID as the ongoing clash of polarized personality types (e.g., good girl-bad girl, upright citizen-sociopath) is… — Richard P. Kluft Copy Share Image
“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Nobody would commit suicide if the pain of being inside herself, the agony of the sleepless, tortured hours spent watching the world… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“Telling a depressed person things like “Pull yourself out of it” is cruel and may reinforce the feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and… — Francis Mark Mondimore Copy Share Image
“It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Earlier in the day, while killing some hours by circling in blue ballpoint ink every uppercase M in the front section of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“It is a common belief that we breathe with our lungs alone, but in point of fact, the work of breathing is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“This is why I feel frustrated now when I hear people referring to suicide as a self-centered act: of course it is.… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
When a depressed person tell u they feel depressed don't ask them why . Just open out your arms, hug them and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the… — Nassir Ghaemi Copy Share Image
Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
![“This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/david-foster-wallace-161_about-yourself_this-story-the-depressed-person-was-the_2572995.jpg)
