Vivek Murthy Quotes

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

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

In my early days depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London.

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

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.

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

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.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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.

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.

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

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 - 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 been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

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

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

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

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.