Rose McGowan Quotes

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

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.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

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

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

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

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

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

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

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

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.

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.

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

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.