“Depression is the ghost that follows me around in a cloud-like haze.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“Just as none of us are 100% physically healthy, none of us are 100% mentally healthy. We are all on a scale.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“If your back hurts it might hurt more by sitting down. If your mind hurts it hurts by thinking. And you feel there is no real, easy equivalent of standing back up.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“We humans might have evolved to far. The price of being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’ worth of darkness.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“Nothing makes me happy. I mean, I have moments where I'm not unhappy, but those are just—more and more rare.”— Zander Lehmann, Valerie, Michaela Watkins, imdb.com
“I was basically the perfect candidate for DBT even though my actual diagnosis was only depression with a bit of an eating disorder. (I say "only" and "a bit" like this wasn't absolutely ruining my life. I was going to die. LOL.)”— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com
“Sometimes i'm like 'maybe i don't have depression anymore', and then i do.”— so sad today, twitter.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
“Nightmares kept a nigga from closing his lids Since a kid, I’ve been haunted by visions of death Such a trip, now it’s normal, I customed the grip Think they gone? Nah, they’re just dormant, them haunters ain’t left”— Kid Cudi, open.spotify.com
“I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions everyday of my life. There's a ragin' violent storm inside of my heart at all times. I don't know what peace feels like. I don't know how to relax.”— Kid Cudi, facebook.com
“Depression is many things, but it is not you. Depression is not me.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is not your fault. Depression is a chemical imbalance. Depression is an illness. Depression is something that can happen to anyone and nothing you’ve done has brought this on yourself.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is slowly drowning, over years and years. Every now and then you’re able to come up for air, but you’re still being dragged down by a current that’s out to get you and you don’t know what you did to deserve it at all.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is guilt. . .Depression is desperately trying to explain what’s going on in your mind when you don’t even really understand it yourself.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is hating yourself for feeling like you’re unable to grow up.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is wishing you were different, praying that one day you’ll wake up as someone else.”— Molly Burford, thoughtcatalog.com