#depression

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #humor

There’s an unfortunate hustle built into medical care, which favors doing things over not doing things. Most medical care is delivered by a provider who doesn’t know the patient and will never see him again. Doing things is more comfortable than not doing things. Doctors have much more at stake in their relationships with insurers and business managers than in their relationships with patients. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut M.D.

#business

I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#sadness #change

Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.
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— Jarod Kintz

#crying #depression #economic-depression #economy #job

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#loneliness #bad

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

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