Quotes of: Being-depressed Keyword

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Mickey and the Gargoyle

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The Meaning of Madness

Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together.

Madman in the Mirror

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

The Marriage Plot

Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

The Love Mindset

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

The men responsible for this depression are irresponsible, and therefore only irresponsible people are responsible enough to get us out and reverse course.

So many chairs, and no time to sit

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

Third Grave Dead Ahead

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

The Portable Henry Rollins

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.

What I Didn't Say

I was so depressed I thought about committing TV. I mean suicide. In the end I decided to binge on @Netflix and it really made me feel better.

Xazaqazax

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

Amy Ray

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Jenna Morasca

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Death and Life

There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.

Glen Duncan

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Judy Collins