“When you are depressed, you have a chemical imbalance in your brain. Thoughts trigger emotions, which dump an overload of stress chemicals… — H. Norman Wright Copy Share Image
The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Depression is becoming an increasingly serious problem. In the United Kingdom, for example, prescriptions for antidepressant drugs have risen by more than… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Am I alive or am I dead. My greatest regrets repeating in my head. Feeling so empty and cold, like a puddle… — MacKenzie Cheesman Copy Share Image
“They say that if you really want to kill yourself, no one can stop you. There are too many ways to do… — Albert Borris Copy Share Image
“Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“I became a student of my own depressed experience, trying to unthread its causes. What was the root of all this despair?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I mistook the depression and anxiety my children were experiencing for the average, if unpleasant, moodiness we all associate with teenagers. I… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
My great grandfather just passed away, and my great grandmother is about to. I usually am fine with keeping myself together, my… — Guardian Copy Share Image
“She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I’m living. When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“There is only one historical development that has real significance. Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
“If we understand many more things than other people, we owe it to our nervous system which is far more disturbed. One… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“In the mirror I stand, an injured deer in headlights, or maybe high beams, judging by the way my eyes water. I… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“It was a sad fact that the commonest complaint in the outpatient department was “Rasehn . . . libehn . . .… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Not everything is going be Fine, Alright,and Okay. You will feel Alone,Empty and Broken. You say your great,When your crying so nobody… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
“She was supposed to be happy... why couldn't she just be happy for a few moments? Why couldn't she just forget everything… — Courtney Carola Copy Share Image
“I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
What I did is I bought a drum set and I listened to 80s music, and I played, and I was, like,… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
“At least when I was an adult, I had a name for what was wrong with me: manic depression. It's easier to… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
As a lone ship in the Ocean, So do I feel at times, reaching for that light in the sky, as to… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“What was wrong with you?" "Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not… — Rhiannon Thomas Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“None of these things define you as a person: Your education The size of your bank account Your job title Your failures… — Srinivas Rao Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and… — Alyse M. Gardner Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“People often say “Just look for the silver lining.” But what do you say to the person surrounded by fog? They don’t… — Sadie Turner Copy Share Image