Charlotte Caffey Quotes

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

I'm somewhat depressive.

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

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

I probably suffered with depression.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

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

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

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 think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.