“Doctor: Do you take anything for depression? Judy Garland: Four husbands. It didn’t work.”— Tom Edge, Judy Garland, Renée Zellweger, imdb.com
“It’s true that exercise is one of the best things you can do for your mental health, but we also need to acknowledge that it’s often not as simple as lacing up your sneakers and heading out the door. It’s just not realistic to recommend that someone 'go exercise' when getting out of bed seems like t…”— Sarah Richards, huffpost.com
“I was so sad because the world was so wrong, everything was so wrong, and then I thought there is no point in living…I became depressed, I stopped eating, and I stopped talking, and I stopped going to school.”— Greta Thunberg, ft.com
“The other thing about depression is it kinda collapses time. Suddenly, you find your whole days blending together to create one endless suffocating loop.”— Sam Levinson, Rue Bennett, Zendaya, imdb.com
“If I am bipolar, I sure as shit prefer mania over depression.”— Sam Levinson, Rue Bennett, Zendaya, imdb.com
“It wasn’t a buy-in as much as they were so happy that I had finally found a happy place in my life. Because I was so depressed. And now my mother calls me Gaga. It’s funny, when my dad had his heart surgery, that was one of the first times that I hadn’t really cared about how I looked. And I remembe…”— Lady GaGa, amazon.com
“Yes. The number-one sign that someone’s going through a rough time usually is that they grow a beard.”— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com
“I go to a psychiatrist and I’m somewhat medicated. Not crazy levels but...I used to think I needed to be incredibly unhappy to be funny. Then you get to a point where you think—and people tell you that’s not true—you get to a point where you don’t care if it’s true or not. You just think, 'You know…”— Conan O'Brien, amazon.com
“The absolute worst part of depression is that even though you know you're depressed, you're unable to stop yourself from getting worse.”— Sam Levinson, Jennifer Morrison, Augustine Frizzell, Pippa Bianco, Rue Bennett, Zendaya, imdb.com
“The 20s can be very hard, they’re not a mental illness. Divorce can be very difficult, losing a loved one, someone that you know died, someone left in a relationship and you’re heartbroken, that’s very painful but it’s not a mental illness.”— Marianne Williamson, buzzfeednews.com
“I know I’m not alone in being diagnosed with depression as a teen — in fact, the number of young people with the same diagnosis has been increasing over the years. But as a young Latinx person, I’m also not alone in misinterpreting the symptoms of depression — and that’s a problem.”— Christian Becerra , teenvogue.com
“No matter how happy you are, you can wake up one day without any specific thing occurring to bring you into a darker place, and you’ll just be in a darker place anyway.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.com
“I think that I always struggled with depression and isolation, so those could come out. I think that the mood of Seattle to me, and the way that I always interpreted that mood was something that was always a little bit introspective and dark.”— Chris Cornell, rollingstone.com
“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody…”— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com
“I don’t recommend having a near-death experience, at all, but I can tell you that many people who do come back end up with a very different perspective on life.”— Evan Rachel Wood, nylon.com
“Talking to someone and saying it out loud really really makes it sound almost ridiculous and it puts everything into perspective.”— Sarah Hyland, youtube.com