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  • Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
  • Depression is the inability to construct a future.

    "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.
  • Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

    Sweet   Dark   Anxiety  
  • The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

  • There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  • That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

    Depression   Keys   Sight  
    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

  • The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

    Change   Grief   Learning  
  • If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  • [My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it won't be raining and accept it so you can find a mental umbrella to shield yourself from the worst. The sun will eventually come up.

    Real   Rain   Believe  
  • Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

    "Bruise Control". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2000.
  • Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  • Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

    "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.
  • Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  • Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

    Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press
  • Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

  • Some men just want to watch the world burn

    Crush   Depressing   Dark  
  • Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

    Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.183, Macmillan
  • The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

    Depression   Bible   God  
    Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.332, Delmarva Publications, Inc.
  • Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  • There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

    Song: Anthem
  • If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

    Sweet   Stress   Sadness  
    "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.
  • You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  • A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

    Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013
  • Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

    FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Mar 29, 2015
  • A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

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

    President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.
  • Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

    I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3
  • All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

    "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.
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