D Quotes
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“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.”
“Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Depression is a serious illness. It’s physically painful, debilitating. And you can’t just decide to get over it in the same way you can’t just decide to get over cancer. Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other. To exist, each relies on the other.”
Source: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.”
“Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Depression is a sign of strength – because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel.”
“Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.”
Source: Depression
“Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.”
“Depression is a Virus,
handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.”
“Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. [...] It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”
Source: Scent of Dried Roses
“Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.”
“Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Depression is always in the details.”
Source: The Woman I Kept to Myself
“Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.”
Source: How to Heal Depression
“Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.”
“Depression is anger turned inward.”
“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.”
Source: The death notebooks
“Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.”
“Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.”
Source: Perfectly Damaged
“Depression is focusing on yourself; on your troubles and what is not right. You can't be depressed if you are focusing on others. It's impossible.”
“Depression is inertia.”
“Depression is just a survival mechanism. Ego reinforcement. There's a little voice in you that says, "No one has ever suffered like this. No one. I'm special. I've received some special punishment. No one can /ever/ understand what it's like to be me." You see, our overwhelming sense of individual destiny keeps us from erasing ourselves. It's a purpose-built, evolutionary mechanism. Because the sole specimen really isn't of consequence, but species survival, of course, is of the utmost.”
Source: Daphne: A Novel
“Depression is kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
“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.”
“Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.”
Source: Skipped Parts: A Novel
“Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.”
“Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.”
“Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it.”
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.”
Source: Illness as metaphor
“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”
“Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.”
Source: Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
“Depression is not a cage without a key.”
“depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.”
“Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you’re sleeping. It takes little things at first; your appetite, your desire to return phone calls. Then it comes back for the big stuff, like your will to live.
Then next thing you know, your legs are filled with sand. The thought of brushing your teeth fills you with dread, it seems like such an impossible task. Suddenly you’re living your life in black and white – nothing is bright, nothing is pretty anymore. Music sounds tinny and distant. Things you found funny seem dull and off-key.”
Source: Sliver of Truth
“Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.”
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
Source: Ordinary people
“Depression is pain in its purest form.”
Source: The Edge of Never
“Depression is possessed by Gravity whereas A deep aspiration fueled by Will can defy any Gravity...”
Source: Destiny Re scripted
“Depression is pretty much a mismanagement of time.”
“Depression is rage spread thin.”
“Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.”
“Depression is sadness gone wrong”
“Depression is significantly more serious, and everyone should be taught to recognize warning signs in school so that we are better prepared as a society, to help those who need us in the future.”
Source: From Misery to Happiness: A poetic journey through love, loss, and second chances.
“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.”
“Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.”
“Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.”
“Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.”