Ambrose Bierce Quotes

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

When I was a teenager, I battled some severe depression.

I've said before, I've always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I've been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I've had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.

I have social anxiety.

It's very scary having something wrong with your head.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

At some point, I stumbled across an article about OCD. As I read, I was blown away by how identical the writer's description was to what I was experiencing. It was overwhelmingly comforting to finally realize that I wasn't alone and that nothing was wrong with me. It was a treatable disorder.

Mental illness affects everyone.

It's anxiety that led to a depression that I've been dealing with since I was 16, 17. That was the first time I was ever prescribed medication for either of those disorders I guess you would call it.

I have anxiety and have had depression in the past.

Often, when you're growing up, you don't know what's wrong. We don't talk openly enough about mental illness. How do you know - especially today with the incredibly high stress teens are put under during high school - if you have depression or if you have a mental illness or if you have anxiety? You don't know, because you've never seen it.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

I've never said I have OCD, as I haven't been diagnosed.

Social phobia, panic disorder… I've had panic disorder ever since I was young.

America’s youth are in the midst of a spiking mental health crisis, and public health experts are racing to identify the root causes before it gets even worse.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.