#depress

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. ↗

— James Hillman

#damn #depression #down #dysfunction #functioning

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. ↗

— James Hillman

#depression #door #kind #opens #some

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world? ↗

— James Hillman

#away #being #car #children #competitive

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#alcohol #anger #been #chair #character

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dark #defeat #depression #giving #had

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#bored #boredom #continuously #depressed #goes

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ↗

— Karen Horney

#concern #depression #drive #into #should

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#i #optimist #optimistic #out #pessimist

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#angst #because #depressed #easier #end