Quotes About Clinical Depression

#1. Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Dallas Willard

#2. Your genes may be causing your blues! We now know depression runs in families and chemical changes in the brain coincide with clinical depression. Medications, psychotherapy, and other treatments can adjust these changes and chase depression away.

Joni E. Johnston

#3. Depression and anxiety are two of the body's first reactions to stockpiles of hurt. Of course, there are organic and biochemical reasons we experience clinical depression and debilitating anxiety - causes over which we have no control - but unrecognized pain and unprocessed hurt can also lead there.

Brene Brown

#4. I've struggled with many forms of mental illness since I was a kid, but clinical depression is a semiregular visitor and anxiety disorder is my long-term abusive boyfriend.

Jenny Lawson

#5. Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.

David Foster Wallace

#6. The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind ... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

Jennifer Holliday

#7. I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

Leonard Cohen

#8. they can all stand quiescent in airless venues for extended periods, their eyes' expressions that unique NYC combination of Zen meditation and clinical depression, clearly unhappy but never complaining.

David Foster Wallace

#9. Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

Alexandra Stoddard

#10. What I want you to know: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Clinical depression is no fucking picnic.

Jenny Lawson

#11. People who kill themselves generally suffer from severe clinical depression," I said. "Their reasons for choosing suicide are not always rational. It's often a chemical imbalance that leads them to the choice.

Lisa Unger

#12. I thought depression just meant that you're sad." "Well, in lay terms it does, but the fact is that long-term sadness is now known as clinical depression and it is directly caused by neurohormonal imbalance or the inability of specific receptors in the brain to function correctly.

Craig Hurren

#13. The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Leonard Cohen

#14. You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

Peter Schjeldahl

#15. There's major depression, and then there's clinical depression. Major depression is what makes you jump off a bridge. I have clinical depression. I jump out of first story windows. It's the psychological equivalent of lying on a bed of rubber nails.

Doug Westberg

#16. I'd walked to school like it was any other day. Like my heart wasn't breaking. Like my head wasn't reeling and my feet weren't weighted down by the sudden and tragic onset of clinical depression, making each breath a trial, each step a struggle. I totally needed a car.

Darynda Jones

#17. Unity is the ultimate goal of all the ways of God.

Abraham Kuyper

#18. Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Robert B. Parker

#19. The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things.

Bill Walsh

#20. There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.

Adam Ferrara

#21. Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

William Jones

#22. I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#23. The worst pain I had to face is the fight with myself. I'm unsure who to rout for, because they both want what's best for me.

James Jean-Pierre

#24. All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Al-Shafi'i

#25. Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#26. I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back

Lil' Wayne

#27. For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

Terry Zwigoff

#28. I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Terry Gilliam

#29. I could've quit long ago, but there wouldn't be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide.

James Jean-Pierre

#30. History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ...

Phyllis McGinley

#31. I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Bill Burr

#32. I squeeze her and she laughs and looks up at me, "Jules, you incorrigible rake," she scolds, and then gives me a smile that makes me feel we're in zero gravity. Floating inches above the floor. weightless and timeless, and I wish this song would last forever.

Amy Plum