Jenny Ryan Quotes

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

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.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

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

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

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

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

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

Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

High school was difficult for me because I was in the thick of dealing with my depression and anxiety.

I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.

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

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

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.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.