Adam Ant Quotes

I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

Although I take the medication, which has made a huge impact on my life in a positive way, still, honestly, when I'm a bit sick is when I'm at my most creative.

For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that's just not me.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built to serve and interact, not be worshipped.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Depression is something I've lived with since I was a teenager.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

I went through a time of depression in my life when I was a teenager - I think a lot of teenagers do.

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking