Andrew Solomon Quotes

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Somebody asked me at one stage, 'Are you depressed?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not depressed.' But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn't realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don't know how to deal with emotions.

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.

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.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.