Janet Fitch Quotes

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

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

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

Depression is rage spread thin.

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.

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

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

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

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

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

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.

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

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

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

I get depressed when things are not right.

Everybody has unhappiness.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.

In 2013, I went through a really great depression.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

I have all bad days. I think I need help. I got an anger problem.