Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.
— Andy Dunn
After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.
— Andy Behrman
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.
— Andrew Weil
When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.
— Andrew Solomon
Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.
I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.
— Andrew Flintoff
Mental strength is not the same as mental health. Just like someone with diabetes could still be physically strong, someone with depression can still be mentally strong. Many people with mental health issues are incredibly mentally strong. Anyone can make choices to build mental strength, regardless of whether they have a mental health issue.
— Amy Morin
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
— Alfred Nobel
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
— Albert Ellis
I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.
— Adrien Brody
Creative people are more prone to depression.
— Adam Ant
The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.
— A Boogie wit da Hoodie
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.
The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.
It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the brain, repeated depressive episodes do.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
— Amy Winehouse
I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
— Amy Grant
Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.
— Alexandra Stoddard
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
— Al Feldstein
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
— Adam Cohen
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.
The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and angry, and I was full of rage. I wasn't lying in bed.
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.
As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?
— Andrew Shaffer
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.
— Allan Hamilton
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
— Aleksandar Hemon
When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.
— Akshaye Khanna
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is founded in his willingness to change his mind to save his country from the Great Depression.
— Abhijit Banerjee
