4,044 Quotes About Depression

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

The scans showed there is no significant depression and the pleasing news is Benji does not have to undergo surgery.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.