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  • There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

    Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins
  • If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  • The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

  • Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  • It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

    Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
  • I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.

    People   Stuff   Killers  
    "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.
  • Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

    Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press
  • Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.

    People   Odd Things   Doe  
    Source: collider.com
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

    Geshe Tsering, Mark Epstein (2010). “Going on Being: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

  • Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

  • Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

    Shoes   People   Bed  
    Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.320, Simon and Schuster
  • A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

    Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013
  • Beautiful people do not just happen

  • If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

    Fighting   People   Want  
  • The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  • Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

    Song: S&M, Album: Loud
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