“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”— Betsy Cornwell, amazon.com
“I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“My whole life is finding the right balance of uppers and downers to help me make it through another day.”— Jejune Being, facebook.com
“It's something that's completely uncontrollable. It's really painful and it's really scary and women need a lot of support.”— Hayden Panettiere, buzzfeed.com
“The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car movies...What else do you want? It's not about what you have or don't have.”— Deepika Padukone, hindustantimes.com
“No blog post that accurately describes what it feels like to go through depression is going to neatly fit in Helvetica font, printed over a black and white photo of a girl smoking a cigarette.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.com
“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.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
“Denying you feel lonely makes no more sense than denying you feel hunger.”— John T. Cacioppo, nytimes.com
“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”— Sara Quin, healthyplace.com
“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.”— Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“Imagine yourself without self-doubt, self-hate and poor self-esteem. Imagine yourself braver, more trusting, freer, more spontaneous, more relaxed. Imagine yourself out there in the world, sharing who you are with others. Picture yourself with an unshakable confidence, a rock solid self-esteem and t…”— 21 Day Challenges, amazon.com
“[On PTSD] It’s the most embarrassing thing a grown man can experience. It’s like having a nightmare while awake.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling thi…”— Anonymous, iwonderwhatsfordinner.tumblr.com
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com