Tom Bosley Quotes

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

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

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

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

I've said before, I've always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I've been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I've had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.

I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.

No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

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.

I've always suffered from depression.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.

I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy you can get.

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

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

Although no one treatment will ever be a panacea, research studies indicate that cognitive therapy can be helpful for a variety of disorders in addition to depression.

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.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

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.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

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.

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.