Erma Bombeck Quotes

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

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

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

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

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.

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 feel like it's big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you're not immune to negativity and depression and stress.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

In my early days depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.