Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

I like being angry every day.

Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.

I find it really easy to be aggressive, I find it easy to cry.

I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.

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.

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

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking