When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
Nothing good comes out of depression.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Often, when you're growing up, you don't know what's wrong. We don't talk openly enough about mental illness. How do you know - especially today with the incredibly high stress teens are put under during high school - if you have depression or if you have a mental illness or if you have anxiety? You don't know, because you've never seen it.
— Katherine Langford
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
— Karen Elson
I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.
— Juliana Harkavy
If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
— Judy Collins
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
— Jonathan Davis
You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.
— John McCain
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
— John Catsimatidis
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.
— Joe R. Lansdale
I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.
— Joanna Going
In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.
— Jim Hunt
When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.
— Jessie Buckley
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
— Jerry Robinson
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
I have had periods of depression in my life.
— Kathy Bates
In the Depression, big musicals made a comeback.
— Katherine Kelly
I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.
— June Whitfield
When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.
— Julia Holter
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.
— Joyce Meyer
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
— John Updike
The struggle these veterans face receiving adequate care for PTSD and depression is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, which is why I cosponsored the Clay Hunt SAV Act.
— John Delaney
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
— John Bright
The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
— Joe Jamail
Realize that doing comedy is only going to make your depression worse.
— Jim Norton
America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
— Jim Gray
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.
— Jerry Hall
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
— Kathi Appelt
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
— Karen Horney
Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
— Julius Erving
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.
— Jorge Masvidal
Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.
— John Ralston Saul
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
— John Cornwell
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
— Johan Huizinga
You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'
— Joe Biden
These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it's viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they've lost their way.
— Jim Irsay
When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
— Ji-Hae Park
Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
— Jesse Eisenberg
