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Depression Quotes
Words for the weight that doesn't always show.
Some of these lines admit to depression outright, others just gesture at a mood that's hard to name — the range runs from someone owning up to mild depression to reflections on hard financial seasons people call their own Depression. If anxiety feels closer to what you're carrying, our Anxiety quotes might fit better.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
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- Nov 07, 2020