My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
Life is like a rock It can be heavy and it can crush you, Don't be a victim of depression and let… — Daniel Payne Copy Share Image
“Often he had the impression that the person answering questions from the scratchy armchair was a dummy he was controlling, that this… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
Yea sum times is okay to feel sad have that good stress or be angry at the world for a mement but… — Santiago Vino del Monte Copy Share Image
I think somewhere along the line probably Tony Hancock did an interview and claimed that he was terribly depressed, and that he… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Depression is not sadness, not even a state of mind, it is a (neuro)philosophical (dis)position. Beyond Pop’s bipolar oscillation between evanescent thrill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Don't let depression get the best of you, just keep calm, breath in and out, picture something fun like shoping of playing… — Chris Kings Copy Share Image
“Think about the nature of depression. Life is turned inward. You already have a sense that, for all practical purposes, God is… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages of an almost daily rain, and to know… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Foreboding” might have been the appropriate word. “Dread.” The PROMISE of fear. It was tangible fear... smellable... the stale odor soaking into… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“But that’s depression, isn’t it? It makes you selfish. It…it shrinks your world down. Like you’re inside a tornado or something. How… — Rebecca Rogers Maher Copy Share Image
I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change.… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Like you're taking the universe by the throat and saying, look, I know I can never be as big as you, but… — Darshana Suresh Copy Share Image
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“If there is a tendency for the right hemisphere to be more sorrowful and prone to depression, this can, in my view,… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse. Energyless, he felt… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“The days and the light feel like brief moments of torture, put here to remind us of what we don’t have any… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People thin depression is dressing in black. But peopple are wrong. Depression… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image