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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.
I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.
'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.
No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.
Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.
I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.
My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.