A disability that is not apparent in the person’s appearance is no less intrusive, no less painful, no less disturbing than one that can be spotted across the room. And, yet, many people fail to respect the tremendous impact that the invisible disa...
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, ...
Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark i...
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good f...
What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark t...
Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jo...
At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.
when I'm sad, I rarely eat. when I'm depress, I do not eat
My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.
manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
