“One study of more than 2,800 Americans over age twenty-four showed that volunteering predicted increases in happiness, life satisfaction, and self-esteem—and decreases… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
“Robin Williams is one more example, that genius people are genius for a reason, and that reason is feeling without reasoning. Depression… — Aleksandra Ninkovic Copy Share Image
“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“According to my interpretation of Buddhism, our dissatisfaction with life derives from a repression even more immediate than death-terror: the suspicion ‘… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Depressions are a lot like snowflakes – no two are exactly alike. Some people get drunk and puke up the badness into… — Lara M. Zeises Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
A shot to kill the pain; a pill to drain the shame. A purge to stop the gain; a cut to break… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them. — Lilla Crawford Copy Share Image
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it it… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Declines in specific industries can never ignite a general depression. Shifts in data will cause increases in activity in one field, declines… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Love is not endless, depression is… you just need to be able to live happily with that” — Lunga Noélia Izata Copy Share Image
Sometimes..I just want to cry. ...not even sometimes. All the time. — Bailey Heideman Copy Share Image
It consumes me day by day. It is my master, I must obey. What is this beast that lives inside me, you… — Leslie Copy Share Image
