Affected Quote by Carlos Santana

Depression is a choice.

— A. Curtiss

“If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice.”

— Northern Adams

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Not only are poor, unemployed, less will-educated and non-white people more likely to become depressed, but they are also least likely to benefit from…

— Irving Kirsch

“One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.”

— Jonathan Rottenberg

Depression is not a choice.

— Shannon Briggs

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

— Dick Cavett

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

— Matt Haig

“Yet, I believe that my experience of depression has helped me to be a more humane and understanding therapist. Psychiatrists get depressed too, more…

— Linda Gask

The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not…

— Tweet

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

— Tom Bosley