Quotes about depression
depression heart scratches
At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by. Elizabeth Wurtzel
depression ambition fighting
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
depression sight fog
A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!
depression alive worst
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.
depression hate people
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.
depression sadness home
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between
depression might prozac-nation
In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
depression united-states sometimes
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
depression gay rights
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.
depression fighting sinking
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
depression keys sight
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
depression fun lying
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.
depression pain being-sad
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
depression responsibility mental-illness
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. Ashleigh Brilliant
depression years political
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. Arthur Henderson
depression share
She had a lot of depression in her life, but she didn't want to share it with anyone.
depression leader band
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. Ben Moody
depression cancer sadness
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. Barbara Kingsolver
depression cancer sadness
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
depression war persons
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. Art Buchwald
depression higher postpartum rate
We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that.
depression art philosophy
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? Aristotle
depression giants impossible
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality. Elizabeth Bowen
depression play insanity
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt. Alexander Lowen
depression alive care
I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive. Ani Difranco
depression pessimism situation
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism. Andrew Mellon
depression worry tides
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
depression soul mental-illness
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. Allen Ginsberg
depression believe people
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else. A. J. P. Taylor
depression mulberry winnie-the-pooh-friend
We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it. A. A. Milne
depression thinking feet
The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.
depression educated fraternity friends-or-friendship key kids liked lives message popular took warning
My two friends in the fraternity who took their lives were probably two of the most popular kids there -- the most liked and the most sociable. So the key message is that if you don't want it to be you or your friend, get educated on the warning signs, and know that depression is treatable, because everyone is vulnerable.
depression
because she was having depression from having kids. Andrea Yates