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Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
DOROTHY ROWE, Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain ... it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
WILLIAM STYRON, Darkness Visible
During depression the world disappears ... because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
KATE MILLETT, The Loony-Bin Trip
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
AARON T. BECK, Depression
Depression has been labelled the common cold of psychopathology. This comparison is unfortunate, for it conveys the impression of a frequent but mild complaint. In reality ... depression is not only the most frequent mental health problem, but is among the most serious.
PAUL GILBERT, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness
Depression is one of the few psychological disorders that can be said to be fatal. Of all the consequences, suicide is, of course, the starkest consequence of the individual's feelings of hopelessness and debility.
CONSTANCE HAMMEN, Depression
A.B. CURTISS, Depression Is a Choice
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
JUDITH PEACOCK, Depression
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.
R.W. SHEPHERD, Vogue magazine, July 1978
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