#depression

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#depression #lazy #unemployed #whites

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#suicide-note #funny

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! ↗

— Al Dubin

#done #man #money #old #old man

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. ↗

— Patty Duke

#depression #evolution #manic #miracle #recovery

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#close #depression #hasn #me #suicide

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#being human #depression #dies #etc #experience

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#around #asked #depression #forces #go

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about. ↗

— Richard Marx

#certainly #depression #had #happiest #happiest people

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