“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
To be honest, I hate it when people tell me I know what it's like to go through what your'e going through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Spreading the word about depression is my mission. I am working to build awareness, educate people about the symptoms, and change public… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
Depression: Is like heavy chains they have your heart pin down by pain. So you keep trying to get up but every… — Joshua Howard Altman Copy Share Image
Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The depression of Job aroused sympathy from his friends but not compassion or faith; when he opened his mouth in bitterness, he… — J. Chace Gordon Copy Share Image
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
Darling don't think everything will be okay. with me nothing is okay. I'm sorry I can't believe what you say. I'm sorry… — Lindsey Copy Share Image
Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
“You can't cure people of their character,' she read. After this he had crossed something out then gone on, 'You can't even… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
It's depressing when that person doesn't bother to answer you back. Then all you can do is think about them, and listen… — Blondie Copy Share Image
“Loss is a straightforward equation: 2 - 1 = 1. A person is there, then she is not. But a loss is… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal,… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image
“Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past thirty years, despite the fact that everyone has… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this… — John Meade Falkner Copy Share Image
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials.… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
“We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
You think your alone? You're not... Look around each one of us has been through it, but that doesn't matter. It matters… — Leslie Copy Share Image
“Depression Intimidating as the oceans roar I retreat to a corner cold on the floor He is back and determined as… — Lucius Johnson Copy Share Image
“The results of decades of neurotransmitter-depletion studies point to one inescapable conclusion: low levels or serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine do not cause… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The darkness might hide things really well, but it doesn’t have the power to make them disappear. And when it comes to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Behind manifest grandiosity, there constantly lurks depression, and behind a depressive mood there often hide unconscious (or conscious but split off) fantasies… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There… — Dana Arcuri Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of 1918 on the side of a blood-spattered trench.… — Helen Zenna Smith Copy Share Image
“which she played like the crazy prodigy she was, then she blanked out again. Her depression was ameliorated by music and brought… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
