Jazz Jennings Quotes

I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

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

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it's harder to be honest.

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.

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

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

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

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

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

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.

When you feel low and down, you don't know whom to talk to and go out with.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

Depression is real, and that really hit me hard. I was going through a phase where I wasn't talking to no one. Only my son. Me and my son would do stuff, but I was talking to no one.

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

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

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.