Quotes About Depression

In the month of December I couldn't get out of bed. I kept waking up at 6 P.M. and it was Christmas or New Year's and I had to start drinking & eating.

It is important that we and the public not confuse high sensitivity with "neuroticism," which includes certain types of intense anxiety, depression, overattachment, or avoidance of intimacy, and are usually due to a troubled childhood. True, some of us were dealt both hands in life—high sensitivity and neuroticism—but the two things are not at all the same.

There is an emotion many HSPs seem to have that cannot be regulated away by the better attitudes discussed above. That is the depression that occurs when there is less sun, in winter or areas prone to clouds or rain.

HSPs with a troubled childhood are more at risk of becoming depressed, anxious, and shy than those with a similar childhood who are not highly sensitive. But HSPs with good-enough childhoods were no more at risk than others. Another study the same year by Miriam Liss and others found the same result, mainly for depression.

anxious HSPs almost all had troubled childhoods. Non-HSPs with troubled childhoods do not show nearly as much depression and anxiety.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

The word narcissism in its most fundamental sense means a tendency to self-worship. For the narcissist, his excessive self-absorption is a protection against unconscious but powerful feelings of inadequacy. Seduced by the narcissist's camouflage of outer charm or confidence, you are eventually drawn into the nightmare side of this relationship. By the time you realize that something is wrong, the cumulative effects can range from bruised self-esteem to severe depression.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place." "Isn't that how it is?" No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.

Previously, I had believed that the sadness came first, and tears were a result, but the reality was clearly more complicated, because once the tears didn't come, the sadness somehow bottomed out, became shallower. What if the way Zoloft worked was just by dehydrating you?

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

People occasionally report that music has increased depression; but, unless someone is so depressed as to be unresponsive to any external stimulus, music is more likely to raise his spirits or at least relieve the sterility of being unable to care about anything or anybody which is so characteristic of depression. It is better to feel that life is tragic than to be indifferent to it.

But no other composer, to my mind, has a greater capacity to dispel irritation or banish a mood of depression. There

A hardworking employee should work for merely own heart's satisfaction in a private organisation, but never with an expectation that the employer will either appreciate rightly or appraise correctly his performance to award him justly for the excellent job done; else the first the frustration will creep in into his professional life & then he will slip into depression.

A hardworking employee should work for merely own heart's satisfaction, but never with an expectation that the employer will either appreciate or award him suitably for the excellent job done else the first the frustration will creep in into his professional life & then he will slip into depression.

An employee who expects his employer to accept an excellent work done by him in the best interest of a private organization and give him due respect, is most often the first to get frustrated and depressed.

The main cause of depression in the sincere employees of the organization is that sycophants get easily increments & promotion and intelligent gets often punishments & not even appreciation for the good job done and the same holds true also for the population of the nation.

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

depression lowers attention span, tolerance for frustration, and memory. Behavior is affected by lowered motivation, loss of ability to experience pleasure, and fatigue. The body is affected by headaches, stomachaches, and muscle tension. Relationships are affected by a tendency to withdraw and become isolated with loneliness.

If left untreated, depression can become serious. It can rob people from many hours of effective functioning—and sometimes rob them of life itself. At any given time, it is estimated that up to 20 percent of the population have disturbed daily functioning due to clinical depression. If you find yourself in this category and have experienced any of these symptoms for longer than two weeks, seek professional help.

Lack of sleep impairs a child's ability to learn, their emotional well-being (mood swings, anxiety, depression, hyperactivity and other behavioral problems) and even leads to many health problems like infections, high blood pressure and obesity.

Het vieze geheimpje van veel depressies. Eigenlijk is er een ander die gepijnigd en gestraft moet worden, maar omdat die ander onvindbaar is of omdat men beschaafd genoeg is om de ander met rust te laten, straft men zichzelf.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.