When you know truly know that God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman’s wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools...

Whoever wrote”I’d rather have loved and lost than never have loved at all”Should be shot in the face.Funny thing is,I’d rather take their place

I didn’t feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Anti-depressants are just tools, one of many, which we use to try and ease the suffering, numb the pain and disperse the dark clouds in our mind in the hope that maybe, just maybe, a...

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when you’re depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time,...

Never doubt in the DARK what God told you in the LIGHT.

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.

Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,...

I’ve been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,”Can’t they tell? “—Nita, September 18, 1984

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return.

Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.

Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don’t even know you’re in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your...

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, don’t touch me! as he...

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including...

my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: “Henry, smile!why don’t you ever smile?”and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was...

I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that...

I have deep feelings of depression… What can I do about this?”Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn’t interest them. They don’t want to know about my feelings or my glands or anything below my neck. I...

If there is such a thing as depression and despair, I experienced it during the months leading-up to and following the divorce. Insomnia, constant and uncontrollable thoughts and a deep sense of loss were among...

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests,...

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]

Kate Gompert’s always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that used to have affective content. Terms the undepressed toss around and take for...

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

I needed somewhere that wasn’t bad. I wanted to be light and happy like you, and I wanted never for you to see the dark. I was scared I would infect you with terrible feelings...

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

It’s as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

Night—it’s the only thing that will cover up one of my black moods. Good thing my depression isn’t an every day kind of thing. It’s an after day thing.

I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it’s hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don’t want to climb off of it.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

…and the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit...

I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.

Depressed people don’t end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

Fella says today, ‘Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an’ they wasn’t nobody after him.’ An’ another fella says, ‘That aint the reason. Can’t afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch ’em and milk...

I’m waiting for her to say “Craig, what you need to do is X” and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain...

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures’ or ‘losers’. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably...