I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.
Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
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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.
Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
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.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.
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.
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
When people don't know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.
Because wherever I sat--on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok--I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
Depression doesn't take away your talents--it just makes them harder to find.
Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
The scrutiny that young people face on social media can lead to anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts.
Meditation can and will order your thinking and therefore your mind. As we heal the wounded places in our minds, we grow.
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.
Despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Suffering is an indication of ignorance, but in seeking an escape from suffering you are only nourishing ignorance.
Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
Don't attack your problems. Face them, confess them, understand what they are. That is the process.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
To heal a wound you must stop scratching it.
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
I need a break from my own thoughts.
I need one of those long hugs where you kinda forget whatever else is happening around you for minute.
I have never felt so much pain in my life. It was tough for me to even get out of bed and I had days when I couldn't walk, let alone write a rhyme.
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
Make peace with your past so it won't destroy your present.
Depressed means you need deep rest from the character you've been playing in the world.
Depression is a medical condition. We need to create a world where people are as comfortable seeking care for their minds as they are for their bodies.
We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.
And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.
The fundamental delusion -- there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
Depression is, in part, grief for your own life not turning out how it should; grief for your own needs not being met.
No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
