Jay Asher 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'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I went through an extreme depression.

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

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.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

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.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

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

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

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.

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

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

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.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.