Libba Bray Quotes

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

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

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

I suffer anxiety and a lot of insecurities, depression and stuff.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

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.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.