Quotes about depression
depression depressing thinking
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. Jonathan Davis
depression psycho mental-illness
Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring. Julie Delpy
depression vanity form
Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. Julie Burchill
depression garden rocks
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden Peter McWilliams
depression thinking people
There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.
depression purpose enthusiasm
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.
depression character trying
..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 of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.
depression taken successful
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.
depression jobs children
..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.
depression acceptance self
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. Nathaniel Branden
depression being-yourself men
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne
depression thinking people
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? Julian Fellowes
depression suicide meditation
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. Judy Collins
depression exercise years
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
depression recovery miracle
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. Patty Duke
depression sky unemployment
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. John Mellencamp
depression hurt cheer
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer
depression men insane
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society? Joseph Heller
depression hate suffering
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer. Kate Millett
depression perfect giving-light
Ring the bells that still can ring. Leonard Cohen
depression depressing psychics
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
depression philosophy angel
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats
depression tragedy panic
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. John Kenneth Galbraith
depression mind function
Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it. Lisa Alther
depression war decision
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents. Linda Grant
depression depressing trying
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. Lynda Barry
depression dream ambition
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis. Gustave Flaubert
depression mad insanity
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. John Dryden
depression great-depression crash
We will not have any more crashes in our time. John Maynard Keynes
depression holes dictionary
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'! Jimmy Durante
depression fear hate
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. George Lucas
depression anger thinking
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. Ellen Hopkins
depression loneliness guy
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. Elizabeth Gilbert