Bases Quote by Jonathan Michel Metzl

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

— Neel Burton

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite…

— Tim Lott

I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural…

— Frances McDormand

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

— Richard Winters

“Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity. All…

— Anne Carson

“ DEPRESSION Many of the individuals in my program have pointed to a level of depression as an initial symptom. Depression—pervasive, overwhelming feelings of…

— Jonathan Berent

“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and…

— Sebastian Junger

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and…

— Adam Ant

“Both the biological and psychological approaches are suspect since both posit an unreal world, completely at odds with human experience, in which people do…

— Eric Maisel

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

— Jennifer Holliday