D Quotes
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“Depravity has nothing to do with wealth.”
“Depravity is an abyss everyone ventures into. People only differ in how much of it they drag back out into reality. - The Malwatch”
“Depressed heartbreak is rarely disruptive or demanding or loudly eccentric. Depressed heartbreak is like taking a step into death while looking like you have remembered how to behave. I think this tells us something about the half-deadness this world [under late capitalism] demands of us. Learning to go through the motions and not hope too much.”
Source: We, The Heartbroken
“Depressed people are caught in a feedback loop in which distorted thoughts cause negative feelings, which then distort thinking further.”
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a normal mood itself becomes alien. I’ve had more than one depressed participant offer me a pained smile during an interview when I asked, -When was the last time you felt like your usual self? – These are the disorientations of chronic depression.”
Source: The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
“Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“Depressed people tended to end things on special occasions and party goers drank too much and then got behind the wheels of vehicles. But Valentine’s Day wasn’t too bad as far as suicides and car wrecks were concerned.”
Source: Predestined
“Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.”
Source: Going on Being: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:
“Depressed? Welcome to my world.”
“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”
“Depressing music really spoke to me. It really was my language.”
“Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.”
Source: Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories
“Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.”
“Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.”
Source: Charlotte Gray: A Novel
“Depression, a lot like the Great Depression of the ’20s-’30s, has people swirling for quite a time in their own created labyrinths.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“Depression always brings to mind the possibility that the person's SEEKING system may have been turned off ...
Our mutual trust in his system's wisdom kept us from being swept away by the despair he felt. We began to ask, "what is this depression, this one who is so still, wanting to tell us?" Then we waited.
We stayed with the one who felt dead inside, acknowledging his protective value even when though we had no cognitive awareness of who and what he was sheltering.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.”
“Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.”
“Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.”
“Depression can also serve as a signal for the abandoner that the relationship was important to the abandoned person. It may arouse so much empathy in the abandoner that they return to the relationship.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorder. It can also be caused by a serious loss, a difficult relationship, a financial problem, or any stressful, unwelcome life change.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.”
“Depression can drain your energy, leaving you feeling empty and fatigued. This can make it difficult to muster the strength or desire to seek treatment. However, there are small steps you can take to help you feel more in control and improve your overall sense of well-being. One of the steps you can start by accepting that today's problems do not have to be your tomorrow. Push to recognize the good in all aspects of your life. You will view your world differently based on how powerful your mind can be. A words of encouragement.”
Source: Kill All Project
“Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.”
“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”
“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.”
“Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.”
“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.”
“Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.”
Source: Submarine
“Depression demands that we reject simplistic answers, both 'religious' and 'scientific,' and learn to embrace mystery, something our culture resists. . . . Embracing the mystery of depression does not mean passivity or resignation. It means moving into a field of forces that seem alien but is in fact one's deepest self. It means waiting, watching, listening, suffering, and gathering whatever self-knowledge one can—and then making choices based on that knowledge, no matter how difficult. One begins the slow walk back to health by choosing each day things that enliven one's selfhood and resisting things that do not.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“Depression deprives you of a good many things on it's long, winding course and one of the first things it divests you of is your sense of self. For me, depression's finest feat was tricking me out of an identity...”
Source: I've never been (Un)happier
“Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.”
“Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.”
“Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.”
“Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.”
“Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.”
Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“depression:
• i'm not happy
• i'm so fucking irritable
• i can never concentrate on anything
• i can't make decisions for myself
• i'm always to blame
• i've lost interest everything
• i avoid people
• i isolate myself
• i've self harmed
• i cry alot”
“Depression: In an essence, depression is a microscopic self-analysis. Every morning, you rule-set yourself into perpetual purgatory cycles.”
“Depression in children, adolescents, and young adults is increasing as well. From 2006 to 2917, rates of depression the US increased by 68 percent in children ages twelve to seventeen. In people ages eighteen to twenty-five, there was an increase of 49 percent. For adults over the age of twenty-five, the rate of depression supposedly stayed stable.”
Source: Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
“Depression is a choice.”
“Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.”
Source: Welcome to My Country
“Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.”
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, "the blues" which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“Depression is a funny thing. Some days you have the strength to get up out of bed and attempt to live your life as a normal human being, but others…you just don’t want to leave your room and socialize with the outside world—the world that you hate on days like this. You stay secluded in a tiny space, left alone to the thoughts that eat at your brain until you finally sit down and let them be thought.”
Source: The Darkest Light
“Depression is a ghost haunting tour happiness”
Source: notes from the heart
“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.”
“Depression is a physical illness.”
“Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.”
Source: Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Six
“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”
Source: Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison