“Suffering isn’t valuable. It’s just suffering, nothing more and nothing less, sometimes necessary and sometimes not. It is bad to suffer for no reason. It’s better not to suffer. And it’s bad for our character: suffering can make us smaller people, less generous, less kind, more fearful, more angry.”— B.D. McClay, gawker.com
“We all have our own monsters, hormones, anxiety, depression, hate. It's all about how you deal with them. Your monsters are you.”— Nick Kroll, imdb.com
“Anger is such a wonderful tool. It’s protected me my entire life.”— Scaachi Koul, walkitoff.substack.com
“Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors Give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away”— Paul Simon, open.spotify.com
“Grief is never linear. But with the passage of time and the communion of close friends, pleasure can and will return.”— Rachel Zarrow, bonappetit.com
“It took me a longer time to understand he was ill and had an addiction... That allowed me to have more peace. It wasn’t him at his core.”— Carl Radke, publicsource.org
“Models like the Polyvagal Theory suggest that we’ve got it backward. It’s the body that detects danger and initiates a defense strategy meant to help us survive. That biological strategy is called immobilization, and it manifests in the mind and the body with a set of symptoms we call depression.”— Alison Escalante M.D., psychologytoday.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
“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
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky, amazon.com
“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“YouTuber and mental health advocate Joey Kidney is starting important conversations around self-care, depression, and anxiety. This is what he has to say.”— Joey Kidney, collective.world
“It wasn't until after the Klitschko fight — a very massive high — that I had to avert to an even worse low. The lowest low that anyone could ever have. I'd wake up and think, 'Why did I wake up this morning?' And this is coming from a man who won everything. Money, fame, glory, titles, a wife, famil…”— Tyson Fury, sportsjoe.ie
“I began studying tarot to learn how to bring more positivity and focus into my life.”— Ellen Ricks, teenvogue.com
“If you’ve been feeling off lately, these books from Ask Reddit might help you feel a little bit better.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everybody has their trouble, and I’ve had mine. I just want what everybody wants. I just seem to have a harder time getting it.”— Tom Edge, Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger, imdb.com