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“In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.”

Might Certain Bits Cases Depression Frightened Prozac Nation

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.”

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.”

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Author:Alan Cumming

“Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.”

Bits Depression Illness Boring Mental Illness Psycho

Author:Julie Delpy

“Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.”

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Author:Janet C. Long

“Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.”

“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.”

Bits Sadness Depression Acid Arousal

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.”

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Author:Frank Bruno

“There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.”

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Author:Jim Carrey