#depression

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

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it. ↗

— Anna Gavalda

#life #strength #love

Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or if you fry bitter gourd with egg, then it's dlicious. I told Lan-Lan many times, we have only one life, it's important to kua kwee, to look spaciously. Not keep the eyes so narrowed down to the small dispairs. Those people who say forgive and forget, I say they not right. Not so simple. I say, find right medicine. Bitterness must be just right for problem. Then swallow it, think of good things can do when no longer sick. ↗

— Lydia Kwa

#depression #inspirational #medicine #sick #forgiveness

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

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#depression #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational

My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#anger-impressions #angry #break-up #break-ups #depression

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#am #born #depression #during #i

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#fulfilling #get #help #help people #hope