Peter McWilliams Quotes

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up and down, you're always just about a quart low in the mood department.

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.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.

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.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

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?

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.