#depress

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. ↗

— Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

#depressed #depression #esteem #hypnosis #panic

I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ↗

— Rachel Machacek

#happiness #happy #dating

Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience. ↗

— S.L. Varnado

#redbeans-rainbows #the-depression-humor #experience

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#faith

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writing because I don't know how much longer I can hold on. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#writing #faith

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #life

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#loneliness #sadness #family

I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like. ↗

— Albert Borris

#depression #suicide #death

My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I hadn’t a job. I hadn’t any qualifications. I’d achieved nothing with my life. I’d never been happy. I had no husband or boyfriend. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#sadness #self-esteem #family

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you. ↗

— Helena Dela

#food #grief #food