Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

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.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

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.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

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

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.