Eric Bristow Quotes

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

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.

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.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

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

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

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

In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

I have personal problems like other people have termites.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

Sit down, man. You're a bloody tragedy.

My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.