Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
— Tom Bosley
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
— Tina Yothers
I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.
— Tim Hardaway Jr.
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.
— Thomas Woods
Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.
— Tedros Adhanom
I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
— Tao Lin
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
— Susan Sontag
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.
— Stuart Symington
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
— Steve Earle
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
— Steny Hoyer
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
— Spike Milligan
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.
— Siri Hustvedt
Autism doesn't seem to have a seasonal component, unlike some forms of depression.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.
— Shawn Colvin
I was diagnosed with OCD and depression, and that was a huge relief, because now my struggles had a name and could be reckoned with. With a combination of therapy and medication, I got better. I learned to love life again. My problems didn't go away, but they became much easier to face.
— Shannon Purser
Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility for the Depression was taken for granted.
— Tina Brown
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.
— Tim Cahill
My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; the Great Depression made it so, and the talented younger economists at Ames during that period made it an exciting and profitable intellectual experience.
— Theodore Schultz
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'
— Tech N9ne
I hated to see tabloids with my pictures where I looked so plump. I visited so many doctors, clinics, hit the gym, hired an expensive trainer but nothing worked. I went into an acute depression. Its then that somebody advised me to take up Yoga.
— Tanushree Dutta
Spreading the word about depression is my mission. I am working to build awareness, educate people about the symptoms, and change public opinion and individual attitudes about depression.
— Susan Polis Schutz
I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.
— Stuart Appleby
The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.
— Stephen Moore
When you win a big title like the French Open, it's tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it's so much stress and emotion, so many people around - and then it's completely empty.
— Stan Wawrinka
It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
— Sloane Crosley
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
— Siobhan Fahey
Autism spectrum disorders are linked to other problems: Most of the people we see in our Asperger clinic for adults also suffer from clinical levels of depression.
Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.
— Shiv Nadar
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
— Sharon Olds
Depression is not a choice.
— Shannon Briggs
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.
I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.
— Timothy Noah
Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.
Depression is a physical illness.
— Terry Bradshaw
Extra weight - whether it's physical, emotional, or spiritual - holds us back from our health and our potential. Overeating is a behavior caused by stress, depression, excitement, fun with friends, self-sabotage, and countless other feelings, emotions, and circumstances. There can always be an occasion to eat and overeat.
— Tara Stiles
The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.
— Stromae
There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.
— Stephen Baldwin
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
— Skylar Grey
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
— Shirley Manson
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.
— Sheri L. Dew
I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.
