Depressed Person Quotes by Ernest Becker

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• I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred. — Eve Ensler
• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself,… — Chase Twichell
• Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can… — Harold H. Bloomfield
• While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get… — Barbara Kingsolver
• The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. — Julia Kristeva
• Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick."… — Brandon Sanderson
• This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace
• When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you… — Dorothy Rowe
• The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component… — David Foster Wallace
• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker
• Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman

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