My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
[My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“To differentiate between symptoms of depression and anxiety secondary to ME/CFS and psychiatric disorders, ask the patient what they will do the… — Alison C. Bested Copy Share Image
“...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“How many more words do I have to write before someone cares? How many more pieces of my heart do I have… — Chahna Copy Share Image
The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only me. I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I was so happy when I found out the wounds you’d inflicted weren’t serious, that you had stopped.” “Yes, I stopped. Barry,… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger,… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“Sadness such as mine is not depression; it can be blown away by an interesting conversation, a welcome telephone call, or a… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Inside...I feel alone and been left out, full of sadness and loneliness, a feeling that slowly consuming my life and killing my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Im a poet writing of my pain im a person living a life of shame I'm a daughter hiding my depression im… — 13 Yearold Copy Share Image
“embracing one's wholeness makes life more demanding--because once you do that, you must live your whole life. One of the most painful… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that… — Frederich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
“How did I bridge the gap from depression to elation? Well, I worked hard at improving all aspects of my game. I… — Walt Frazier Copy Share Image
Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea.… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get so sad. So sad that I completely shut down. I stare blankly at the wall and it doesn't matter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lambert believes that we have an innate need to do hands-on work that produces tangible results and that this could actually be… — Kathryn Vercillo Copy Share Image
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Anupam and I started as friends. I remember, every time I went through rough times, emotionally rough times, Anupam would always be… — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
“There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you 'admit to.' It is not something you have to blush about;… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Day after day, he sits there... lost in a regretful world of sorrow. meaning is what he is without. just a smile… — Frank Pivonka Copy Share Image
In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority… — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
When you are a functioning depressive, you are able to get by, but only just. And there is always this worry that… — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
“Being depressed is one thing when your life can be seen by outsiders as justifiably hard, but it is a whole different… — Boyd Varty Copy Share Image
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Many will have suffered depression as teenagers or young women, so they’ll be familiar with that stigma, the way treatment involves judgement.… — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image