On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“For nearly a hundred years, psychiatry has been striving to apply medical model thinking to psychiatric disorders. In this model, the symptoms… — Keith Russell Ablow Copy Share Image
Going through depression is a process - it doesn't get cured overnight. You have to really work on yourself, you have to… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm tired of waiting, calling, being angry, crying, being depressed, scared beng in pain, running from another life, being yeld at, yelling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everything that is possible an elaborate battle to… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
We all go through moments of depression. It's part of being a human. Sometimes it's not circumstantial, what makes you feel that… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
“I wish I could tell every single woman with depression or anxiety or who has gotten herself into a situation that she… — Constance Hall Copy Share Image
“Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents… — Jane Tompkins Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“In the field of medicine, Galen, the Alexandrian scientist, propounded a view that is still around, nowadays called 'alternative medicine.'It was taught… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Closeness eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about you. It softens the frustration and anger that… — Kira Asatryan Copy Share Image
There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had.… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The extremes between world hunger and obesity. People who argue we are in a recession and really have no time to worry… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I feel these forbidden thoughts creep in sometimes without warning. Slow thoughts that always start quietly, like whispers you're not even sure… — Amber Smith Copy Share Image
Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
“I don’t exist metal pressed to pages spilling blood, ink in vein each thought rages Sunlight shooting through a forest of pines… — Abby Musgrove Copy Share Image
For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You will remember that every psychological or inner state finds some outer representation via the moving centre—that is, it is represented in… — Maurice Nicoll Copy Share Image
We can give space to someone's depression. We can love them; we can honor - we can just eat some noodles, we… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy,… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I'd say, for me, it's cooking that gives me a space beyond music. I love food. And somehow, music and food go… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
