Patty Duke Quotes

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

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

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

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 was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

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

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.