Quotes About Mental health

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.

I was depressed for a long time.

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

It wasn't like I was clinically depressed, but I was so down. I think I was probably depressed. Nothing went my way since college, and I put my head down and kind of pitied myself. That wasn't the right way to go.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

Stand-up wasn't a calling. It was more like, 'What can I do that isn't going to make me really depressed?'

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

I do get depressed sometimes, I don't know why. It's since I was a kid and it's just part of my personality.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I have treatment-resistant depression and I need to take medication to rebalance my brain chemistry - just like someone with asthma needs theirs.

I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don't have to be ashamed of it.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

All depression is fear-based.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.