50 Uber Inspirational Quotes From YouTubers Who Followed Their Dreams (And Think You Should Too!)

“It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.”

— Matt Haig

“Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.”

— Susan Polis Schutz

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary th…”

— J.K. Rowling, books.google.com

“Saying suicide is selfish is saying, 'Although I don’t understand clinical depression & suicide I’m going to judge people who die from it even if causes unimaginable pain + trauma and stigmatizes mental illness because it makes me feel better + safer.'”

— Brené Brown, twitter.com

“Depression and fear are always in company with chronic hurting.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“There was another epidemic that was not talked about much, a silent scourge—the explosion of mental illness: major depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic-depression, personality disorders, grief response, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, etc.—on a scale none of us had ever wit…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Depression is not just a bad day or a bad mood and it’s not something someone can just ‘get over.’”

— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com

“They surveyed more than 600 young adults and asked about firearm possession as well as symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, PTSD, and other mental illness.”

— Dr. Mallika Marshall, boston.cbslocal.com

“Anxiety plays tricks. It tells you that everything you feel is serious. Depression paints everything in black and white. Together, they skew perceptions.”

— Lucy Roleff, expand-your-consciousness.com

“Having depression doesn’t make you weak.”

— Nicole Pajer, huffpost.com

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com

“Depression is worse than mere sadness or being in a ''bad mood.'' The hallmark of severe depression is 'an inclination to despair' and the inability of many people to feel anything whatsoever.”

— John Langone, nytimes.com

“Deep depression is due to a problem with brain chemistry, not a problem with inner weakness.”

— Karen Salmansohn, notsalmon.com

“People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger.”

— David D. Burns M.D., amazon.com

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”

— Stephen Fry, amazon.com

“She treats it like she would any other chronic illness: as something that's not my fault.”

— Christopher Post, self.com

“They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.”

— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org

“The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.”

— Anonymous

“You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.”

— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.com

“I stand here today as proof that you can live a normal and empowered life with mental illness.”

— Demi Lovato, foxnews.com

“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong this is.”

— David Levithan, amazon.com

“This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”

— Charles M. Schulz

“When I feel happiness or love I feel those things intensely, and I feel pain intensely. It's the price of feeling.”

— Matt Haig, twitter.com

“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start t…”

— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com

“Postpartum depression takes certain truths and turns them into the worst version of the truth. The truth is, your life is changed forever when you have a child, but what you don’t factor in is that it might be better and it might be more enriched.”

— Brooke Shields, webmd.com

“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”

— Iain Reid, amazon.com

“One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you’re sad.”

— Martin Seligman, healthland.time.com

“Happiness and love come naturally in letting go of fear.”

— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com

“What does it say about the continuing stigma of mental illness that so many of us feel comfortable discussing our illegal drug use, but depression is a secret too embarrassing to share?”

— Ayelet Waldman, medium.com