#depress

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#alcoholism #bipolar #celebrities #celebrity #drinking

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. ↗

— Erik Larson

#historical-novel #change

I am a work in progress. ↗

— Violet Yates

#depression #poetry #recovery #progress

Creative people are more prone to depression. ↗

— Adam Ant

#creative people #depression #more #people #prone

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work. ↗

— Adam Ant

#black #call #case #depression #disorder

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ↗

— Steven Winterburn

#assholes #depression #humor #humour #low-self-esteem

But no one came. Because no one ever does. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depression

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. ↗

— Bjork

#anyone #big #church #compared #depression

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#elated #feel #i #i feel