A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
“But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
“The star-shreds that aggregated into the most improbable and miraculous explosion of your consciousness should be appreciated with more noble sentiments than… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Developing the courage to think negatively allows us to look at ourselves as we really are. There is a remarkable consistency in… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
“James had taken his own life, but the need to do so was not something easily explained. He had the life he… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do.… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Was James bipolar?” The tears returned, and I watched her battle them. “We don’t use that word in our family.” I stared… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up;… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I’m chain smoking on the balcony and feeling like shit (which happens more often than I’d like to admit), I… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Along with some things I've seen in my own life, it showed me that depression needs to be treated in the same… — Samira Wiley Copy Share Image
“Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our… — Richard O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There is no “letting go.” I would dare to take it further and say there is no healing from trauma. For nearly… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed… — Hilary Spurling Copy Share Image
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
I'm a walking sin, sheesh, where do I begin? I've failed through life, I'm always in strife. Why can't I just leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“[T]hough the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating -… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
“Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of… — Leonard Gardner Copy Share Image
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
“Since I am suffering with type 2 bipolar disorder mainly on the depressive side of the bipolar disorder. I am not afraid… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too,before others quite reasonably, and it looks as tho I felt, too,… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
“I can see every day that a squirrel's perfectly at home in a world of trees. But imagine taking that squirrel and… — Mira Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
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