Joanna Going Quotes

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.