It's like everyone is moving on and getting on with life, while I'm still stuck in depression with no way out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is the kind of sickness that isn't excused at school. This is the kind of sickness that no one ever notices.… — Patience Copy Share Image
I hate when people tell me to 'just be happy'. Do you think I chose to 'just be depressed'? — Leslie Copy Share Image
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written,… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate;… — Noel Hunter Copy Share Image
“Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder. I am not afraid… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around… — Jennifer Elisabeth 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
Those who do not realise humiliation achieve a lot tremendously, I'm starting to think my pride is in the way. — Daniyal Butt Copy Share Image
“Being depressed and suicidal doesn't mean wanting to kill yourself every moment of every day. It may be a fixed obsession, but… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what… — Hank Smith Copy Share Image
I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
At the back of my mind there is always a fear the depression could return but I do all the right things.… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression] — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was… — Alexis Hall 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
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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