#depression

But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I was able to live without the gigantic knot in my stomach. Without the boulders weighing down my shoulders. ↗

— Holly Hood

#hate #love #sadness #love

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

It's always too soon to quit! Believe in the goodness of God practically speaking. ↗

— Eric C. Maynard

#god-s-love #love

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown ↗

— Herman Melville

#soul #thought #men

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#bank-account #depression #funny #humorous #inspiration

Life is upside down. Thank God for just taking what we want, not what we need. He take what we want to make us ready for receiving what we need. ↗

— Cynthia Rusli

#economic-depression #inspirational #love-hurts #motivational-quotes #inspirational

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #inspirational