Brie Larson Quotes

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

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

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

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

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.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

There are times when I cry. I'll sit in the chair and feel the depression, let it seethe. Then it starts to go away, and I find myself laughing, saying, 'Well, that was dramatic.'

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

I went through a lot of changes and a period of depression. I'd reached an age when I had to grow up and start taking life a bit more seriously, which had a huge impact on me. I suffered terrible anxiety, and sometimes, in the middle of a game, my legs would start shaking uncontrollably. It was pretty scary.