There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
— Irving Kirsch
Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.
— Ileana D'Cruz
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
— Henri Nouwen
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
— Helen Reddy
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
— Harry Reid
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
— Greta Gerwig
In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.
— Graham Moore
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
— Gloria Steinem
I fought a disease. I fought a disease called depression that a lot of people fight every single day. And unlike other diseases, there is a stigma surrounding it.
— Ginger Zee
You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
— Gilbert Baker
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
— George Kaiser
If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
— Gayle Forman
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
— Gary Larson
Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
— Frank Rich
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
— Frances McDormand
I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
— Felicia Day
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.
— Iris Apfel
I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
— Herbert Hoover
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
— Helena Blavatsky
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
— Heber J. Grant
I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.
— Harry Markowitz
My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
— Gregory Hines
By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.
— Gore Vidal
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.
— Giles Andreae
Depression is rage spread thin.
— George Santayana
Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
— Geoffrey Boycott
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
— Frances Perkins
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.
— Evangeline Lilly
I don't want to be submerged by depression.
— Ingrid Betancourt
'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that album.
— Hunx
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
— Helen Thomas
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
— Harry S Truman
I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.
— Hank Williams III
Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.
Growing up during the Depression, we didn't have much, but we had each other, we had our friends, and that was pretty much all we needed. I was aware that some people had more, but those who did, shared.
— Gordie Howe
I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.
Trust me, you know when you've got depression.
My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
— George Michael
When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
— Gene Wilder
Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.
— Feng Zhang
