One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. — Polly Toynbee
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. — Jonathan Davis
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. — Adam Ant
Healthy and happy people, research suggests, generally have a less accurate, overly optimistic grasp of their true ability to influence events than do those who are suffering from depression. — Oliver Burkeman
It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. — Susan Polis Schutz
Depression is anger without enthusiasm — Anonymous
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. — Doug Coupland
When you’re depressed it’s like those people up on the top of Everest who don’t have enough oxygen. Just basic stuff like zipping up your jacket is like doing f*cking squats! — Duncan Trussell
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. — Julia Kristeva
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. — Elayne Boosler
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though. — Jeffrey Eugenides
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you. — Winona Ryder
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. — J. K. Rowling
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer — Ricky Gervais
Depression is the inability to construct a future. — Rollo May
Short People With Depression Quotes
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. — Steven Wright
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. — Judith Guest
Depression is rage spread thin. — George Santayana
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. — James Hillman
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem. — Richard Winters
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself — Ned Vizzini
People With Depression Image Quotes
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
Depressed People Quotes
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades. — Chester Bennington
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression. — Byron Katie
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. — Brené Brown
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. — Fred Rogers
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. — Johnny Depp
There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm. — Gabrielle Bernstein
I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly. — Jack Kirby
Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract. — Emile Durkheim
Depression Quotes
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally. — Kevin Gates
The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more. — Kevin Gates
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. — Henri Nouwen
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government. — Idi Amin
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. — Corrie Ten Boom
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. — Edgar Allan Poe
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. — Demetri Martin
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
Help With Depression Quotes
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here. — Jared Padalecki
If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support. — Jared Padalecki
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. — Ned Vizzini
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. — Tom Bosley
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. — Dalai Lama
Eating chocolates or popping pills won't reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life. — Sushma Swaraj
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do. — Stephen Fry
To Help With Depression Quotes
Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light. — Marvin J. Ashton
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. — Judy Collins
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. — Ned Vizzini
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. — Judy Collins
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. — Aron Ralston
Even with the darkest and most distressing subjects in movies there's always going to be humour not far away, just under the surface. And it does help otherwise we'd just get ourselves into a massive trough of depression if there wasn't humour just around the corner. — Mackenzie Crook
The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not easy, but you can come out of it and help someone else. — Tweet
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me. — Jonathan Ames
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind? — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Being Depressed Quotes
If the praise of others elates me and their blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstandin g without defending myself; if I love to be loved more than to love, to be served more than to serve, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else. — Alfred Adler
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. — Anton Chekhov
Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success! — Phil Heath
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious. — Joel Osteen
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life. — Pema Chodron
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression. — Leonid Afremov
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright
Clinical Depression Quotes
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be. — Daniel Johnston
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. — Leonard Cohen
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — John Green
Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.' — Dallas Willard
You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world. — Peter Schjeldahl
As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult. — Lena Headey
I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled himself. That scared me. I didn't want to be in that position. — Kelly Carlin-McCall
The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that. — Damon Lindelof
We are all much healthier than we were 20 years ago, but mentally, we're falling apart. The World Health Organization now estimates that one out of five people on the planet is clinically depressed. — Stephen Petranek
I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call. — Marianne Williamson
Anxiety And Depression Quotes
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds. — David Deida
When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long. — Deepika Padukone
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. — Grenville Kleiser
Anxiety, depression, and all issues you aren't able to figure out might be linked to your gut health. — Gary Brecka
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. — Mitch Albom
Take care of yourself, both physically and mentally. Self-care is essential for overall well-being. — Edward Barber
It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. — Melanie Klein
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, “Sadie, you have an audition for a show called ‘Stranger Things’,” and I had just finished binge-watching it in a few days. — Sadie Sink
Stop helicopter parenting. Let kids play outside unsupervised. Kids who aren't allowed to explore and play outside are at increased risk of anxiety and depression. — Michael Easter
Hopelessness is the root of anxiety, mental illness, and depression. It is the source of all misery and the cause of all addiction. — Mark Manson
Depression Inspirational Quotes
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. — Harry S. Truman
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard Codey
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth. — Peter Damian
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert A. Johnson
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. — Sivananda
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling
Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths. — Brianna Wiest
Depression Is Real Quotes
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard J. Codey
Depression is not real. Feeling depressed is real. So, you can feel depressed, but you feel depressed and that is a natural, biological, evolutionary trigger for you to change something in your life. — Andrew Tate
Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life. — Ethan Hawke
The greatest marketing secret of all time is that people buy more when you make their problems and desires feel more real. — Russell Brunson
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. — Ludwig von Mises
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement. — Mike Piazza
It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it. — John Lennon
Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that. — Warren Buffett
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — John Green
The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst. — Paul Krugman
Overcoming Depression Quotes
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew. — Saint Francis de Sales
There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure. — Woody Allen
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. — Norman Vincent Peale
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. — Madeleine L'Engle
Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead. — Kris Carr
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed. — Charles Spurgeon
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy
Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken. — Mallory Ortberg
I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression. — Stuart Appleby
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. — J. K. Rowling
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted. — Fernando Pessoa
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is. — H. R. Giger
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door. — Martha Manning
I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. — Ayelet Waldman
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy. — Irving Kirsch
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile. — Judith Guest
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it. — Andrew Solomon
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. — Helen Keller
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener. — Mark Hoppus
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good. — Kay Warren
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. — Barbara Kingsolver
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. — Barbara Kingsolver
Sadly, there are some fine Christian people who believe that the only way to advance the gospel is to pray for revival and nothing else. You don't know if they have any non-Christian friends or if they have ever shared the gospel with anybody in the last 30 years. It's depressing going to prayer meetings like that. I don't want to pray like that. — Mark Dever
If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. — Stephen Fry
I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. — Albert Ellis
If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with. — Martin Gore
Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage. — Stephen Fry
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. — Douglas Coupland
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out. — Joyce Meyer
Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right with too much alone time. There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart. — Agapi Stassinopoulos
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were. — Alastair Campbell
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs. — Martha Manning
I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that. — Emma Thompson
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. — Tom Bosley
I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace. — Kay Redfield Jamison
If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. — Joan Cusack
I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it. — Dudley Moore
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. — Heather Armstrong
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market. — Ludwig von Mises
Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed. — John Berendt
"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence." — Sally Brampton
People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves. — Kate Nash
I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know. — Hope Davis
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