Something I learned when overcoming anxiety and depression was that I was not searching for happiness but for satisfaction with and in my life.
By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
