Coping Up With Depression Quotes

#1. We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Ashly Lorenzana

#2. During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

Maureen Corrigan

#3. Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Jan Wong

#4. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

#5. Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

Jane McGonigal

#6. To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

David L. Conroy

#7. Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

Sally Brampton

#8. I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

Kathleen Rooney

#9. ... depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

#10. Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [ ... ] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.

Meg Jay

#11. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.

Dennis Lehane

#12. Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Ned Vizzini

#13. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.

David L. Conroy