Quotes about depression
depression thankful gratitude
So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done. Marian Wright Edelman
depression space perspective
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be. Marian Keyes
depression suicide lying
I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. Ned Vizzini
depression thinking keys
The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it. Ned Vizzini
depression ice people
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. Ned Vizzini
depression baby owl
So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology. Ned Vizzini
depression dark mirrors
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. Miriam Toews
depression mad religion
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. R. D. Laing
depression denial normal
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being ... R. D. Laing
depression insane-world insanity
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing
depression garden feelings
When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.) R. C. Sproul
depression lying stupid
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. Margaret Atwood
depression cutting self
I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff. Kelly Holmes
depression depressing optimistic
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell
depression tears sometimes
With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason. Keisha Buchanan
depression sorry struggle
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. Kate Chopin
depression spring levels
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity. Julian Barnes
depression people reason
For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. Kirstie Alley
depression giving-up believe
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life. Kay Redfield Jamison
depression mother horse
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. Kay Redfield Jamison
depression loss blood
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. Kay Redfield Jamison
depression writing thinking
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ... Kay Redfield Jamison
depression jobs divorce
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't. Kay Redfield Jamison
depression pain dark
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable Kay Redfield Jamison
depression stars pain
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. Kay Redfield Jamison
depression patience mindfulness
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke
depression years black
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure. Sebastian Faulks
depression cracks worst
Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst. Ray Brown
depression suffering important
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you. Siobhan Fahey
depression laughing people
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect. Siobhan Fahey
depression voice bipolar
I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. Sinead O'Connor
depression hate frustration
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. Norman Cousins
depression morning self
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all. Mitch Albom