Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.
Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.
When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
I think I suffer from some mild depression.
When I noticed other people, I wondered what it was like to be alive. They did not know, could not know, how I felt inside. My shell still passed for normal. I felt like I should scream for help, someone should help, but I knew that the time for scre...
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...
When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens for not having them. But to expect ev...
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...
My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing...
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.
