Matthew Shultz Quotes

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

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.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

Now is the age of anxiety.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Living, it's awful for me.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

I suffer from everyday life.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I'm somewhat depressive.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.