Quotes of: Being-depressed Keyword

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Devotion: A Memoir

Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

Denial

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

He was depressed. He was addicted to heroin. And I think there comes a time when all the beauty in the world just isn’t enough.

Five Flavors of Dumb

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

Falling for the Ghost of You

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

Guards! Guards!

Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to “protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

Blue Nights

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

The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising ...

Shawn Amos

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race fo...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You can actually eat yourself into a better mood and get rid of depressive thoughts and melancholy.

10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

It's Time to be a Church Without Walls

They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter.

Seraphic Addiction

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

The Savage Detectives

When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression