Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
I will find a way out or make one.
. . . it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Madness is a kind of mental suicide.
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.
I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.