“Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Perfectionism is correlated with depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis or missed opportunities. The fear of failing, making mistakes, not meeting people’s… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
“Most people think that anger, sadness and frustration are to be avoided. How am I to improve myself if I can be… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
In those pamphlets that they give at mental health centers where they list the ten or so symptoms that would indicate a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“There are so many people whose minds do not belong to them. There are so many people whose thoughts have been purchased… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“When the door to suicide opens it becomes a viable option that you never considered before, but, once ajar, it initiates an… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
And with a shattered mirror And a bleeding 0 up And with a shattered mirror And a bleeding fist You hold that… — Fading_scars Copy Share Image
Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It was really hard in the beginning when I first became pregnant it was just such a shocker. I was depressed for… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
“I decide to scope out craigslist to see all the vibrant economic employment opportunities available to me in this depression. Oh, I’m… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and… — Stacy Barthe Copy Share Image
“Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Do you know? Do you know what it's like to live with fear? To be afraid every day of your life, and… — Linda Ward Copy Share Image
“Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“It's not that Derek brought me out of that depression I had found myself in, but he helped me pull myself the… — Erika Taylor Copy Share Image
Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I feel like, I was going somehow with my life, holding myself together and then these blasts happened, and then suddenly I… — Bhavya Kaushik Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image