Richard Eyre: We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain...

Quote	We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Copy
Author	Richard Eyre
Category	Depression
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Quote: I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
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Author:
Wole Soyinka
Category:
Depression

I found, when I...

Quote: In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.
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Author:
Pete Burns
Category:
Depression

In 1997, a severe...

Quote: Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board.
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Author:
Matt Cameron
Category:
Depression

Joining another big time...

Quote: As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?
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Author:
Andrew Shaffer
Category:
Depression

As a writer who...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Ben Huh
Category:
Depression

Get away from the...

Quote: Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.
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Author:
Christina Romer
Category:
Depression

Recovery measures work better...

Quote: 'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.
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Author:
Susanna Moore
Category:
Depression

'The Big Girls' has...

Quote: 'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
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Author:
Margo Jefferson
Category:
Depression

'Melancholy' is prettier than...

Quote: I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
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Author:
Alanis Morissette
Category:
Depression

I'm really clear about...

Quote: Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.
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Author:
Marianne Williamson
Category:
Depression

Certainly there is such...

Quote: I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
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Author:
Robert Fisk
Category:
Depression

I'm not sure whether...

Quote: The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
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Author:
Helen Fisher
Category:
Depression

The Great Depression of...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Gilbert Baker
Category:
Depression

You don't have to...

Quote: As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
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Author:
Tony Campolo
Category:
Depression

As we consider the...

Quote: I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.
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Author:
Dorothy Hamill
Category:
Depression

I'm certainly not a...

Quote: Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms - bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees - that go beyond the ordinary politician's normal narcissism.
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Author:
Jacob Weisberg
Category:
Depression

Without medical records that...

Quote: You throw sadness, you throw depression, you throw horror at Batman, he's like, 'Yeah, yawn, I've done that.' You throw happiness at him? That's something that riles him; that's something that he's not used to.
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Author:
Tom King
Category:
Depression

You throw sadness, you...

Quote: Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
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Author:
Robert Winston
Category:
Depression

Childhood depression tends to...

Quote: Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
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Author:
James Howard Kunstler
Category:
Depression

Americans are suffering so...

Quote: We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
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Author:
Jerry Robinson
Category:
Depression

We were just emerging...

Quote: Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
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Author:
Herbert Hoover
Category:
Depression

Economic depression cannot be...

Quote: I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.
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Author:
Allison Pearson
Category:
Depression

I've struggled with depression,...

Quote: Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.
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Author:
Andy Dunn
Category:
Depression

Oddly, I believe that...

Quote: Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.
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Author:
Holly Holm
Category:
Depression

Aim high and don't...

Quote: When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.
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Author:
Lilly Singh
Category:
Depression

When I started out...

Quote: There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.
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Author:
Lauren Mayberry
Category:
Depression

There were times in...

Quote: If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.
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Author:
Marianne Faithfull
Category:
Depression

If I let myself...

Quote: Nothing good comes out of depression.
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Author:
Kay Redfield Jamison
Category:
Depression

Nothing good comes out...

Quote: Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
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Author:
Kay Redfield Jamison
Category:
Depression

Psychologists, for reasons of...

Quote: My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
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Author:
Andy Behrman
Category:
Depression

My manic depression was...

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