Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

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

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 have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

For a long time, I've struggled very, very much with what people call treatment-resistant depression.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

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.

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my 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've said before, I've always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I've been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I've had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.

I've always suffered from depression.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

I went through an extreme depression.

In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is to do things, even though the patient will, at that time, believe that any act is pointless and meaningless.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

This is a common misconception about antidepressants: many people believe they're simply 'happy pills' that will wipe a person's emotional slate clean. Used correctly, antidepressants can lift the fog of mental illness.

There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.