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“Immobilization: A state, however mild or serious, in which you are not functioning at the level that you would like to. If feelings lead…

— Wayne W. Dyer

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked…

— Andy Behrman

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

— Emanuel Celler

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out…

— Peter McWilliams

“An awfulness was deep inside me, and I couldn't fight it; forced into submission and taken hostage by it, I could only just lie…

— Nick Miller

It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college,…

— Greg Oden

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

— Albert Ellis

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe…

— Byron Katie

I didn't think I was capable of getting depressed.

— Joey Barton

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has…

— Alan Cumming

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and…

— Susan Polis Schutz