Clinical Depression Quotes:

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

- Dallas Willard

source: Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.102, Tyndale House

topic: Bad Mood, Form, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Depression, Depressing, Thinking, People With Depression, Clinical Depression

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Anxiety, Speak, Strategy, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

topic: Life, Depression, Real, Clinical Depression, Hazel Grace

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

- Patty Duke

source: Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

topic: Depression, Recovery, Miracle, Mania, Mood Swing

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Depression, Depressing, Artist, Clinical Depression

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Depression, Psychics, Way, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

source: President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Take Nothing For Granted, Inspirational Achievement

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Depression, Given, Clinical Depression

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

- Molly Ringwald

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Depression, Role Models, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

topic: Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational, Gin And Tonic, Mind And Body

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

source: Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

topic: Depression, Jobs, Divorce, Clinical Depression, Unendurable

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Depression, Humor, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Runner

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.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pain, Sadness, Space, Pain And Sorrow, Clinical Depression

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

- Dennis Lehane

topic: Depression, Numbness, Weary, Clinical Depression

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

- Peter Schjeldahl

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Agreement, Understanding, World, Mutual Understanding, Clinical 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.

- Terry Bradshaw

topic: Nice, Hero, Years, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign finance, even simple human happiness - all are demonstrably affected by how (and whether) we connect with our family and friends and neighbours and co-workers.

- Robert D. Putnam

topic: Suicide, School, Simple, Census, Clinical Depression