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...

Sometimes it feels like we’re all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Es gibt Tage, wo das Leben übertrieben flau ist. Zu Bett gehen; weiter hilft nichts mehr.

This story [“The Depressed Person”] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It’s about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on...

The red washingdown the bathtubcan’t change the color of the seaat all.

We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The most important crisis of our life calls, trumpet-tongued, for immediate energy and action....

And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to...

Depression is rage spread thin.

He’s afraid,” Graber said.”Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.””And a man-eater.””We’re all that.””Why?””We are. And we think, just like that dog, that we are still good. And just like him we are looking for...

The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel

Like eggs, I’m scrambling to get ahead in this economic depression.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side...

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it’s one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I’m sure to much of the world, long before it became apparent to me-is that we all find ourselves in...

Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression’s actual essence, which is...

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was.

Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.

They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.

I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so...

You didn’t get past something like that, you go through it — and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On...

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

I’ve dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back,...

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately,...

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

Whenever you get such repulsive and destructive thoughts, always remember that there are more people in this world who love you unconditionally than the years of life you have lived.

You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to then. The domain of the rules was no longer enough for you; you...

Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

Because that’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into...

No one can hurt me now ’cause i have stopped permitting them.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between…I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like...

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language,...

Why aren’t I fine?

Dicen que la depresión te hace ver todo de una forma negativa. Yo no estoy de acuerdo. La depresión te hace ver las cosas como son. Hace que te quites la venda de los ojos...

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

I tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors.

Woe is me.

Czekam, czekam.Obrazy przechodzą jeden za drugim, nie utrwaliły się mocno – zaledwie cienie i wspomnienia.Nicość, nicość.Niepokój mój wzrasta.Przerażające uczucie obojętności chwyta mnie nagle. Nie mogę znaleźć sobie miejsca, jestem stąd wykluczony; jakkolwiek błagam i wysilam...

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

I pop the lenses out of my sunglasses that way I see the bright side of things because if you always look at the dark side of things your not seeing the brightness that all...

The world can ask you to participate, but it’s a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

My heart is broken.

Cuando estás fatal es cuando intentan pillarte.

I don’t have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

Oh, precious losing streak,you’re too cute for your own good. I try to laugh about itbut my face is made of wood.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love…then I know nothing of...