Brett Gelman Quotes

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Depression and anxiety affect a huge number of us. It's so important that the barriers that keep us from talking, seeking out help, and finding a way to cope when things feel desperate are removed.

I'm naturally a very happy person, but I've had times with depression and have got through it with therapy.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

If you're not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That's when angels rush to your side.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.