Quotes About Struggle

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.

I dealt with depression for my whole life. That's not something that was caused by being trans.

Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it's something that I battle with.

I was able to battle back through depression.

It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no bones about her struggle with depression, the overriding memory of it is a very happy, good one.

I had a couple years of depression. I started drinking too much. I had to up my antidepressants. I cried all day, every day, and I lost weight. But I had to take care of two kids. It wasn't about me anymore.

Depression is not a choice.

Realize that doing comedy is only going to make your depression worse.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

I went through an extreme depression.

The thing with depression is you don't realise you have it and even when you do you don't want to realise you have it.

The depression happened more so because when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a doctor. My heart was like, I want to save the world, I want to help people... But when I felt like nothing I was doing was right, that's the way I felt.

I developed depression. But I never let people know how down I was feeling. That would have been another burden for my friends to take on. My mind became my biggest enemy.

I certainly don't think comedians are more depressive than any other walk of life. I have had clinical depression, as it happens. The stress of performing didn't help, but it wasn't about being a comedian in itself.

We all go through moments of depression. It's part of being a human. Sometimes it's not circumstantial, what makes you feel that way, it's a chemical thing. You can get some help.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

Post-partum depression is real and while I was told about it, I wasn't sure what to expect.

I knew I didn't have post-natal depression because it wasn't all day, every day. But I felt very low. As a woman you think you should still be making dinner and looking nice. You think, 'I can do a million and one things.' But you can't.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.