Overcoming Depression Quotes

[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.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

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

Some men just want to watch the world burn

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

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 hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

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.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

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.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

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.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

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

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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.