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“The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.”

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a renowned psychologist known for his research on the concept of flow. His work focuses on human creativity and happiness, particularly the psychological state of being fully immersed in an activity. more

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks Heart Soul Felt Sleep Know How Thousand Depression Skins Wounds God Knows Merry Good Heart

Author:Hugo Wolf

“I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”

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Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.”

Want Turns Emotion Cry Depression Surface Festering

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.”

Ifs Feels Soul Enough Used Suffering Cold Depression Harmony My Soul Gray Cloudy Cloudy Day Days Like This

Author:Paulo Coelho

“My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.”

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Author:Sarah Lancashire

“I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“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.”

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