#depress

Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn’t change who we were or what had happened. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#depression #family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#paris

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#environmentalism

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#depression #normal #social #change

...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time. ↗

— Chang-rae Lee

#change

Sometimes I just try so hard to remember the last time I was happy, you know like really happy. ↗

— Unknown

#depression #life #love #pain #sadness

Isn't it just weird when you sit in a room full of people and realize how empty you are. You begin to think to yourself, do I really matter. Does anyone care? ↗

— Unknown

#depression #life #love #pain #sadness

Some days I wish I was not alive, other days I'm indecisive. I've never wanted to be alive. Is that a bad thing? ↗

— Unknown

#depression #life #love #pain #sadness

The sad part is not that I am depressed and suicidal. It is that no one knows. They all think I'm a very happy person. ↗

— Unknown

#depression #life #love #pain #sadness

Happiness? When it feel it, it is often just for a short while ↗

— Unknown

#depression #life #love #pain #sadness