“Loneliness is a quiet devastation.”— Katie Hafner, nytimes.comTagged: Loneliness, Depression, Single, Mental Health
“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.comTagged: Depression, Mental Health
“Do you think grief is anything like depression? Go with grief. It's better. In grief you're at least feeling a rich, deep feeling. In depression you don't even have that, it's just that awful feeling of nullity.”— Dick Cavett, nytimes.comTagged: Depression, Grief, Emptiness
“Everyone deserves to feel the normal range of emotions without having to be depressed or anxious to the point that it interferes with enjoying life.”— Laura Gaffney, nytimes.comTagged: Medicine, Depression, Anxiety, Enjoying Life, emotions
“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.comTagged: Depression, Sadness, cancer
“Antidepressants are not supposed to suppress a person’s emotions. Ideally, they are supposed to prevent a person’s mood from going too low. The antidepressants should not interfere with people feeling excited, sad, nervous or irritable when they need to feel these emotions. If an antidepressant is m…”— Laura Gaffney, nytimes.comTagged: Mental Health, Medicine
“The lonelier you are, the more your attention is drawn toward negative social information.”— John Cacioppo, well.blogs.nytimes.comTagged: Loneliness
“The greatest barrier to seeking mental health care, especially for depression, is recognizing the need to seek care in the first place.”— Elizabeth D. Arend, nytimes.comTagged: Depression, Mental Health
“Loneliness has to be everybody’s business.”— Paul Cann, nytimes.comTagged: Loneliness, Depression, Mental Health
“We have this kind of male pride thing. We say, ‘I can look after myself. I don’t need to talk to anyone,’ and it’s a complete fallacy. Not communicating helps to kill us.”— Mike Jenn, nytimes.comTagged: Loneliness, Communication, Gender Wars, Masculinity
“Denying you feel lonely makes no more sense than denying you feel hunger.”— John T. Cacioppo, nytimes.comTagged: Loneliness, Depression, Mental Health
“To suffer is as human as to breathe.”— Jack Thorne, Albus Dumbledore, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Sad, Life, humanity, breathe
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing…”— Patrick Rothfuss, goodreads.comTagged: Psychologists, Psychology, Anthropology, Soul Searching, Madness
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.comTagged: Poetry, Writing, Literature, Pain, Sad
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— Carl Gustav Jung, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Psychology, Communication, Relationships
“I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just okay. You need to get out of bed every day and say that life is good. That's what I did, altho…”— Jim Carrey, marieclaire.co.ukTagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression
“It takes so much energy constantly dealing with depression/anxiety/medication/doctors. It's so draining and progress is so hard to make.”— Jejune Being, facebook.comTagged: Mental Illness
“Humor has the same formal structure as depression, but it is an anti-depressant that works by the ego finding itself ridiculous.”— Simon Critchley, amazon.comTagged: comedy, humor, Jokes, Depression
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bod…”— Alexandra Katehakis, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, Psychology, The Art of Awareness
“Somehow, over the past few decades it's become conventional wisdom that we should put our faith in our feelings. That is, if we feel something—especially if we feel it intensely—then it deserves to be seen as valid, or truthful. The adage "trust your feelings" has by now become almost axiomatic. But…”— Leon Seltzer, psychologytoday.comTagged: Philosophy, Psychology
“My whole life is finding the right balance of uppers and downers to help me make it through another day.”— Jejune Being, facebook.comTagged: Depression, Mental Health
“My advice would be talk to people about it. Don't feel alone in it. Treat your body as if you are another person that you need to take care of and heal.”— Felicia Day, forbes.comTagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression, Anxiety
“There's no shame in dealing with these things. There's no shame in having to fight every day.”— Jared Padalecki, variety.comTagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.comTagged: Emptiness, Depression, therapy
“On December 31st of 1958 Lila had her first episode of dissolving margins. The term isn’t mine, she always used it. She said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared. That night, on the terrace where we were celebrating the arrival of 1959, when she w…”— Elena Ferrante, amazon.comTagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Truth, Relatable, Depression
“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.comTagged: Mental Illness, Depression, ocd
“Deep depression is due to a problem with brain chemistry, not a problem with inner weakness.”— Karen Salmansohn, notsalmon.comTagged: Don't Give Up, Depression, Brain, Weakness, strength
“Untreated mental illness can lead to devastating consequences, including suicide, substance abuse, and long-term medical issues. We can do better. Every one of us can make a difference. By getting educated on this epidemic and its frightening statistics and by breaking the stigma.”— Demi Lovato, bustle.comTagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Facing Mental Illness, Battling Mental Illness, Finding Strength
“Inactivity and depression feed on themselves. The more you wallow, the worse it gets.”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Wallow, Inactivity
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.…”— Janet Fitch, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Pain, Life Is A Journey, Sensitivity, vulnerability