Quotes About Depression

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara is very pragmatic.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.