Browsing Topic Best Clinical Depression Quotes

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a ‘bad mood.’

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature’s part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I didn’t know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that’s nice. It’s nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, ‘ahhh, this is great.’ So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don’t want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.