David Harewood Quotes

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

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.

I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

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

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

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.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.