What people don’t understand is that suicidal people aren’t acting out of selfishness – on the contrary, they feel that the world would be better off without them. They may be struggling with extreme depression, feelings of isolation, the effects of complex trauma or abuse, mental health issues, wor…
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Quotes tagged ‘Depression Awareness’
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?
Depression is an unbelievably powerful thing. It’s wild. One minute you can just be sitting there enjoying yourself and then, without even so much as a change in wind direction, your brain can decide that your world is crashing down all around you.
If you don’t get hit with 'bouts of depression, that is wonderful. Consider yourself lucky. And remind yourself that not everyone is as lucky as you. Instead of telling them what to do, ask them what they feel. It can make all the difference in the world.
It often has nothing to do with any reality. Nothing had to change. Your perception about things shifts instead. Things that were good become meaningless. Things that were bad become dire. All without anything happening. Maybe that’s why it’s so flabbergasting when someone tries to say that depressi…
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.
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.
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.
Depression is wishing you were different, praying that one day you’ll wake up as someone else.
'Depression is a choice' = 'your pain is your fault' 'You can overcome this if you just try hard enough' = 'Your pain is making me uncomfortable. Please shut up.' If you are unburdened by depression, real true depression, count yourself lucky. Keep your quick fixes to yourself. This is the kind of b…
Things can get slightly better for reasons it's hard to foresee. Just as pleasures fade and can seem meaningless in retrospect, so pains (at least sometimes) can pass or soften.
We should accord ourselves the same degree of forgiveness we wouldn't hesitate to direct to an acquaintance.
We live so close to ourselves, we know so much about our private failings, we miss that our flaws are general: present even in the outwardly placid, the beautiful, the rich and the people next door.
Our tribulations are a symptom of being human, never just a curse attached to our silver of existence.
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
I was hiding out from the celebrity thing. I was smoking way too much dope. I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself. I got to, ‘What's the point? I know better than this.’ I used to deal with depression, but I don't now, not this decade – m…
I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life, I still suffer with it every single day. I just want these kids to know that that depth that they feel as human beings is normal,’ she told Billboard. ‘We were born that way. This modern thing, where everyone is feeling shallow and less co…
I was constantly anxious. I was kind of a control freak. If I didn't know how something was going to turn out, I would make myself ill, or just be locked up or inhibited in a way that was really debilitating.
To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it's mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I'm I glad I did. It ain't about the ass it's about the brain.