My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.
I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
