Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.
I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
. . . And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
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.
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.
On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression. . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.