Courage Quote by David D. Burns

“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her…

— Randolph M. Nesse

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

— Dick Cavett

“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved…

— Anthony Liccione

“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

“The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a…

— Andrew Solomon

“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

In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is…

— Mark Fisher

Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in…

— Margo Jefferson

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

— Pink

Going through depression is a process - it doesn't get cured overnight. You have to really work on yourself, you have to really check…

— Alana Haim

“Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for…

— Sally Brampton

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one…

— Susan Polis Schutz