Unresolved issues Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.”

— David D. Burns

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said…

— Peter Cameron

“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it”

— Julie Schumacher

“I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.”

— Susanna Kaysen

“Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

“Depression is an emotion for which I have not the time, nor the inclination, to expend my mental resources,”

— James N. Cook

“Most of the unhappiness and the sometimes-severe depression I've dealt with throughout my life have come not from the losses and injuries I have…

— Tyler Dilts

“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

The vast numbers of people who suffer some kind of mental illness under capitalism can either think, 'there is some failing with me, if…

— Mark Fisher

“It explains the great quandary of why the most depressed societies are those with the fewest wants.”

— Hugh Howey

“I’ve come to accept the reality that as a chronically depressed person, I can be in two states of mind at the same time.…

— Gillian Marchenko

“For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness…

— Nell Casey