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

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

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

I went through an extreme depression.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

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

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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.

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.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

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

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

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.