When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I haven't really smiled,I always faked smiley. I haven't really laughed, I faked that too. I know I'm not really happy. I'm… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
“A lot of people who suffer from depression don’t even know they have it. It’s a gradual change. Or at least it… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was… — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“I don't want to ruin your life," Leonard said in a gentler tone. "You're not ruining it." "The drugs just slow the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Drug addition can cause the following: Lack of interest in grooming, withdrawal, isolation, fatigue, depression, aggressive rebellious behaviors, deteriorating relationships with family,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says,… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace,… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images...it bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more… — Ellen Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
“In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
“As I accept the flowers, I release my grip on the balloons, and they bounce gently against the ceiling the way they… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
I dont know where to start¦ I have been dealing with depression, stress, anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts now for years. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dear depression, you need to leave me alone already. everyday you're screaming at me and telling me how terrible I am. you… — She's_gone 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
“A friend called the other day. 'How are you?' she said. The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue. It was… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the… — Jan Wong Copy Share Image
I am starting to accept that you never loved me. And it's sad because I don't think you see how beautiful you… — Anonymous 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
As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“When we first listen to depression, we find that the misery is consuming. It doesn’t point anywhere or say anything. It just… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Do you know what it's like to count your breaths, breathing them as you regret their very existence; What existence signifies purpose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The off-drug patients also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions, and retarded movements. Indeed, they told Carpenter and McGlashan that they had… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“The study demonstrated that people suffering from symptoms of depression used the Internet more. Why is that? One hypothesis is that those… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“...and the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
![“…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.” quote by Jan Wong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aca/jan-wong-58584_cognition_depressive-realism-depression-is-not-the_673516.jpg)
