Depression Stories Quotes

“I had money...But for some reason, I couldn't go anywhere.
Apparently, finding a warm place to belong...Takes something other than money.
Several years later, I realized that this "something" other than money...Was also required to enjoy food, to keep yourself neat and tidy, and to mutually respect people.
But at the time, I dind't know that.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.”
― Tobias Wolff

“We wage battle with our traumas each day, individually and, to a broader extent, collectively. Too often we are dragged from our sleep by inner skirmishes that invade and dominate our emotions, rile the inner snipers, and hold our bodies hostage to our histories. Often we are ambushed by an unseen enemy from within and for the untrained, unconditioned warrior, there is no safety. We hide, isolate, avoid known landmines, and shield ourselves with alcohol, other drugs, spending, raging, sex, gambling, risk taking. At least, for a moment, the terror dissolves and we can attach ourselves to a sense of safety. Even in the full knowledge that it's all temporary.”
― Louise Sutherland-Hoyt

“In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears are a sign of weakness. When you are different, you are told to change. And really, what does that do? It isolates desperate, vulnerable people and creates victims.”
― Frida R., Blossom's Wine Bar

“I mistakenly believed that I was my emotions.”
― Yong Kang Chan, The Emotional Gift: Memoir of a Highly Sensitive Person Who Overcame Depression

“We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as if all this were a bad dream.’
A bad dream.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
A bad dream.
I remembered everything.
...
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.
But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Commitment is what transforms
a dream into reality.

One percent or ninety-nine percent complete are both incomplete.

Wanting is wishing or dreaming. Deciding is the willingness to do whatever it takes to make your wishes and dreams come true.

Pondering on what you are going to do actually sucks up more time and energy than going out there and doing it.

If you’re planted in an environment with depleted soil loaded with weeds, your conditions must change in order for you grow and thrive.

As you change your circle of influence, your thinking changes, and ultimately your world changes too.

When you are too busy trying to outshine others, you miss out on your own inner spark.

If your focus is on competing with others, you cannot complete you.

Perfection is a myth, a misconception, and just an opinion.

A well-tailored business suit might look perfect to a banker, but deemed to be dreadful to a heavy metal rocker.

Going out of your comfort zone might be gut-wrenching, but dying with the music still inside is even more painful.

Stagnation drains your energy and slowly sucks the life out of you.

When you declutter your mental space, just like clearing out physical space, you find valuables you had long forgotten about.

Keeping emotional toxin in your head is like fertilizing unwanted weeds.

Positivity is your weed killer.

Turn it around, and let that poison fuel your passion, just like farmers using manure to fertilize plants.

Like eating, going to the bathroom, or exercising, self-transformation cannot be delegated.

I was a sunflower trying to survive and grow in a stinky muddy swamp, but instead being strangled by a bunch of weeds.”
― Megan Chan

“If everyone wants to hate me, just hate me...it is not my fault to let you fall in love with me so much.”
― Kaewta Arunj

“The social pressure to be happy therefore means that many people who aren’t happy or experience extreme low mood such as depression, are pressurised into not speaking about their negative emotions. It makes it hard for individuals to be honest with both themselves and others, and means that we would rather keep it all inside. Being expected to be happy all the time makes us feel like we’re failing when we’re feeling unhappy.”
― Isha Barlas, Unspoken Words

“everyday i remember how i didn't just wake up with depression it feeds , it builds up and then you explode one day..some can put the pieces back together some can't in my case im just having trouble finding them.”
― aliyssa garcia

“Lastly, I want to encourage others to share their stories. Share your story through whichever creative outlet you are most comfortable with. Don’t underestimate your story’s motivational capacity! To you, your story may feel like a compilation of failures, disappointments, and hardships, but to others it may be a source of inspiration, perseverance, bravery, and strength.”
― K.J. Redelinghuys, Unfiltered: Grappling with Mental Illness

“Depressions can be compared to driving your car in a very long tunnel. You know there is an end, but you just cannot see it. Once you run out of fuel, you cannot continue with driving. A lot of people will say you have to seek help. Call the road service to help you. The problem is, in a tunnel, you have no signal. Calling for help seems impossible. You have to walk out on your own or have the fortunate somebody is driving in the tunnel that is willing to help you, without coaxing him.”
― Niels B

“Depression, a lot like the Great Depression of the ’20s-’30s, has people swirling for quite a time in their own created labyrinths.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“With depression, there is always a plus one." ~Qurious Theologian”
― Tashara S. Void

“Kaya sa mga may pinagdadaanan d’yan, tame your demons.
Your battle will be much gentler if you learn to love them
in the way you want to be loved. Mahirap, oo.
Pero sa huli, ikaw rin ang magdedesisyon sa mga laban mo sa buhay — dahil ikaw lang ang tunay na nakakaalam.”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo, Smile at the Monster: Turn Stress, Anxiety, and Self-Doubt into Motivation, Focus, and Daily Success