Andrew Solomon Quotes

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.

I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

I was an emotional basket case.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.