Jonathan Davis Quotes

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

I am bipolar, and I am a full manifestation of it in terms of my speech, in terms of my energy.

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.

I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.

When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

I'm calm some days, sweet some days.

We all go through different mood changes. I'm just a person; I've got all those emotions going like everybody else, and sometimes it gets the better of you.

I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.

Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.

I'm overemotional.

I hate it when I get grumpy. But I can only be high-energy for so long.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean. Used correctly, antidepressants can lift the fog of mental illness.

I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.