Anthony Hamilton Quotes

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

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

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I was an emotional basket case.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

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.

... too emotionally strung out.

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

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

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

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

I wanted to die. I had a panic attack.

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

Don't eat your heart.

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

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.