“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.'… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
“This is central to understanding the nature of motivation, as well as its failures (e.g., during depression, where there is inhibition of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
“When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
I hate not being able to wear short sleeves. I hate going to sleep and praying I don't wake in the morning.… — Leslie Copy Share Image
I just want to scream out what I've been holding in past these couple days but I don't for the sake of… — Tabby Copy Share Image
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I hope we will never again see such a depression. But I am troubled by the huge consumer installment debt which hangs… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Howard Hughes thing hadn’t actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his… — Heidi Betts Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel… — Gloria Smith Copy Share Image
“When I had the third breakdown, the mini-breakdown, I was in the late stages of writing this book. Since I could not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I had bad anxiety and bad depression. That's like the worst thing you could have. You think too much about the past,… — NLE Choppa Copy Share Image
“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Have you ever reached to a point where you asked God if the assignment is really from Him. In your account you… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus,… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
She sat alone, alone at home, where her screams were silent but her mind was violent, her insecurities hid deep inside and… — Ana Copy Share Image
“Nessa explained that depression caused her to feel like her body was lying to her and she ultimately decided she had to… — Kathryn Vercillo Copy Share Image
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Research indicates that those who obsessively ruminate tend to dwell on negative thoughts and emotions. There is, in fact, a strong correlation… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“..a new baby is not uninterrupted bliss. It's joy mixed with terror, fatigue, depression, intense feelings of helplessness, loneliness and inadequacy. And… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it… — Tweet Copy Share Image
So I searched through my great-grandpop's memoirs for the devil in my bloodstream, depression grabbed his throat and choked the life out… — Lindsey Copy Share Image
“The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“You see, people want lots of nice things. And because they want them, they won't be happy until they get them! And… — Alice M. LeGrow Copy Share Image
“...sometimes they almost made me feel glad that I had a few extra years to play my depression out with therapy and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
