Advice Quote by Anonymous

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

— Ricky Gervais

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to…

— Harold H. Bloomfield

“There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Telling someone who's depressed to Just get over it is like telling a blind person to Just look harder

— Anonymous

Being depressed is for people who cant hide their feelings.

— Anonymous

When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are…

— Kerry Kennedy

I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how…

— Karamo Brown

“If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness.…

— Matt Haig

When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

— Josephine Humphreys

“I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy…

— Rachel Machacek

Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest…

— Marianne Williamson

“nothing is worse than the false hope someone gives you in your depression”

— Kim Walters