Brooke Shields Quotes

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

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

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

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

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

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

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

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 say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.