Mental depression, a state characterized by mistrust, despondency, loss of interest in the environment and the main goals of life, decreased physical activity and often deterioration of bodily functions. Depression is very common in neurotic individuals (usually mild and transitory forms); the most severe forms, clearly pathological, can grow dramatically to the point of suicide. But the word “depression” doesn’t just refer to a type of persistent mood; the term can in fact be used to refer to an economic situation (the worst possible), or simply to indicate a geographical area (a lower area in relation to another). Be sure to read the following collection of phrases, quotes and aphorisms about depression below:
“One thing is for sure, sitting around and feeling miserable won’t make things happier.”
“The only thing worse than a child dying on you is that they want to die.”
“Our war is spiritual warfare, our great depression is our life. We grew up with television that made us believe that one day we would be millionaires, movie gods, or rock stars. But we won’t be, and little by little we understand it, which makes us very angry.
“I wish life was a little more like in the movies. I want an angel to come to me as happens to James Stewart in how beautiful it is to live and to take away that idea of suicide. I have always been waiting for that moment of light that would set me free and change my life forever. But he won’t come, it doesn’t happen like that. Everything that happened, everything, was part of a recovery process. Just as I went down, I got up again.”
“The price to get out of depression is humility.”
“Our life is our great depression.”
“Depressives don’t want to be happy, they want to be unhappy to confirm their depression. If they are happy they are not depressed and they have to go out into the world to live, which can be depressing.”
“That is just my problem that I cannot be happy. I never have been, I think I was born without that capacity, it’s like someone born without sight or hearing, but I suppose mine is worse, you can’t even imagine what it’s like to get up every morning without any motivation, the efforts I have to do not send everything to shit. And the only thing that relieves me is that the others are not happy either, and I assure you that I put all my effort into it, everything, that’s why I wanted to thank you for what you do with the program, you have really helped me a lot, but now does not matter.”
“If you think no one cares if you’re alive, try skipping your car payment by a couple of months.”
“In depression you can see that one of the parents, or both, are rejected or that access to one of the two is impossible, for whatever reasons.”
“Suffering depression is being dead in life, wanting to leave and gather the courage to release the weight of pain.”
