Quotes About Depression

Padecer depresión y ansiedad consiste en un proceso por el que te conviertes en prisionero de tu ego y no dejas que entre el aire del exterior.

Allen Barbour, an internist at Stanford University, had said that depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences.

It said depression and anxiety were carried in your genes. I knew my mother had been depressed and highly anxious before I was born (and after), and that we had these problems in my family running further back than that.

Depression is a cover version by a downbeat emo band, and anxiety is a cover version by a screaming heavy metal group, but the underlying sheet music is the same. They're not identical, but they are twinned.

A common symptom of depression is something called "derealization"5—which is where you feel like nothing you are doing is authentic or real.

If you worked in the civil service and you had a higher degree of control10 over your work, you were a lot less likely to become depressed or develop severe emotional distress than people working at the same pay level, with the same status, in the same office, as people with a lower degree of control over their work.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

No messages. Morale losing altitude.

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.

I've spent all day in bed. Having the old obsessions, the feeling that nothing is possible for me.

A lot of times, I wish I were dead, I truly do, just to make the pain stop.

It's a tiny box, Mirren. Me and Mummy. Me and my pills. Me and my pain. I don't want to live there anymore.

Adelaide wasn't depressed. She never felt bleak. She had energy. She was talky. She painted her fingernails green and wore floral-print dresses and enormous cardigan sweaters. But you can be talky and paint your fingernails and still be very sad. In fact, you can be talky and paint your fingernails to protect other people from how sad you are.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done.Brother, can you spare a dime?

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.