#depress

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#depression #happy #illnesses #just #like

Depression is a physical illness. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#illness #physical

I’m a man of leisure. That’s because I have an English degree and can’t get a job.
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— Jarod Kintz

#degree #economic-depression #english #job #leisure

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living? ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#depression #mood-disorders #care

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known. ↗

— Julie Anne Peters

#sad #suicide #suicide

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-harm #self-injury #suicide #suicide

Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence. ↗

— Sally Brampton

#physics

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn. ↗

— Anne Frank

#cowardice

Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die. ↗

— John Green

#depressing #peter-van-houten #sad #the-fault-in-our-stars #weakness

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology