Quotes About Major Depression

#1. In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Herbert Hoover

#2. When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Frank Langella

#3. If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#4. The criteria of agency and ownership distinguish structural dissociation from other manifestations of insufficient integration such as intruding panic attacks in panic disorder or intrusions of negative cognitions in major depression.

Onno Van Der Hart

#5. I have consumed so many Weisinger-era Superman comics that they ooze back out through my pores!

Chris Roberson

#6. The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

Abraham Maslow

#7. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.

Northern Adams

#8. We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

Lawrence Summers

#9. He tilted his head, eyes peering deep inside of me in a way that made me feel exposed, like I'd never really been seen before, yet at the same time safe, like he'd never tell a soul what he'd found.

Kristen Simmons

#10. Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. 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

#12. If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

Jon Stewart

#13. That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

Marcus Allen

#14. Though major depression is often associated with lethargy to the point of being frozen, many people with chronic depression not only work well but devote more energy to their vocation than to any other endeavor.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#15. Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

Keith Ablow

#16. 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.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#17. People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#18. No one wants to admit that they suffer from a mental illness, because of the stigma," I said. "Both of us suffer from major depression. He knows that I've been through a lot of the same things that he's going through now.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#19. I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

John Krasinski

#20. Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them.

Gustave Flaubert

#21. I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

Milton Friedman

#22. Depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

William Styron

#23. There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#24. 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

#25. Darlin', I've heard all about fifty shades of grey but I never knew there were fifty shades of denim!

Joanne McClean

#26. Some people's heads are like their hats; it appears that just like hanging their hats they hang their heads somewhere and walk without them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. One crucial distinction between major depression and chronic depression is that, in the latter, one largely ceases to howl in protest that the world is hard or painful. Rather, one becomes accustomed to it, expecting such hardship and greeting it with, at best, a stoic determination.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#28. recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way.

Kiera Van Gelder

#29. You are the winged wolf, but you will never fly ... unless you open your eye. - Jojen

George R R Martin

#30. Now my charms are all o'erthrown...

William Shakespeare

#31. It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

Art Rust Jr.

#32. Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Michael Greger

#33. Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

Ozzy Osbourne

#34. Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.

Daniel Pinchbeck