Quotes About Depression

I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

I am a smiling depressive.

I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing.

On social media, you have a mask on where you are smiling, but you're crying inside. And that was me.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

He quotes an expert on anxiety who suggests we should think of the two disorders as "fraternal twins": "Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

Depression is a response to past loss, and anxiety is a response to future loss." Both reflect a mind mired in rumination, one dwelling on the past, the other worrying about the future. What mainly distinguishes the two disorders is their tense.

Mental time travel is constantly taking us off the frontier of the present moment. But when time travel turns obsessive, it fosters the backward-looking gaze of depression and the forward pitch of anxiety.

the spike in environmental alarmism comes at a time when anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising within the general population, especially among adolescents, in both the United States and Europe.67 Seventy percent of American teenagers call anxiety and depression a major problem.68

More recently, these electrodes have targeted a new area of the brain (called Brodmann's area number 25) that is often overactive in depressed patients who do not respond to psychotherapy or drugs. Deep brain stimulation has given almost miraculous relief after decades of torment and agony for these long-suffering patients.

No, it was not superstition, it was a sense of beauty that cured her of her depression and imbued her with a new will to live.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

When the color goes out of your soul, you are left with an empty heart.

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home. It does, doesn't it?

It's a world where getting stoned is the only option.

Mises's conclusion: "Whosoever foresees so clearly before the age of forty the disaster and the destruction of everything he deems of value, cannot escape pessimism and psychic depression.

Poets are mostly voters and taxpayers, but the alienation of the poet is a common theme. Among poets there are also probably higher than average rates of clutch burnout, job turnover, rooting about, sleep apnea, noncompliance, nervous leg syndrome, depression, litigation, black clothing, and so forth, but this is where we live, or as Leonard Cohen put it, poetry is the opiate of the poets.