#depression

You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#funny

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#being #call #depression #enough #guess

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#depression #feel #forms #how #i

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#bipolar #bit #certainly #character #depression

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#fiat #financing #justifiable #money #more

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#concerned #depression #far #i #just

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

#corn #depression #divert #had

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#going #i #i think #life #people

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#suicide #death

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#get #just #live #many #older