Andrew Solomon Quotes

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

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

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

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

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.