Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

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

I'm not a big depressive, but I have my moments.

Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth - hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I mean me personally, I don't understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you're white! Smile!

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

I am a smiling depressive.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

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

Creative people are more prone to depression.

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

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.