Shawn Colvin Quotes

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

Anxiety is a trap; it's not a trend to be followed. It's not supposed to be cool, it's meant to be fixed.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

I've certainly gone through my fair share of anxiety and depression.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.