Depression Status
Understanding what it’s like to live with depression, finding motivation, and knowing that “someone gets it” can all be gained through reading depression quotes and sayings. Many facets of the illness, such as loss, melancholy, isolation, and others, are addressed in these quotations and sayings about depression.
♥ Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also harder to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden. It is easier to say, ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken’.
♥ I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.
♥ We hide to try our feelings, but we forget that our eyes speak.
♥ I have depression. But I prefer to say “I battle” depression instead of “I suffer” from it. Because depression hits, but I hit back. Battle on.
♥ 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.
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♥ You look happy, but you don’t feel happy. That’s what depression does to you.
♥ When you suffer from depression ‘I’m tired’ means a permanent state of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix.
♥ Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
♥ Whenever I have a good few months and I think I’ve gotten over the worst of my depression, it silently returns. This isn’t a battle I asked to fight. I’m tired of knowing it’s always coming back.
♥ No one realizes how strong someone with depression has to be just to do daily stuff like shower, brush hair, or get out of bed.
♥ I wanted to write down exactly what I felt but somehow the paper stayed empty and I could not have described it any better.
♥ Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.
♥ When you’re depressed you don’t control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I wish people would understand this.
♥ What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.
♥ No matter how bad things are right now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you’ve spent crying and wishing things were different. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won’t feel this way forever. Keep going.
♥ Sleep just isn’t sleep anymore, it’s an escape.
♥ Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there though.
♥ I am not using my depression as an excuse. Trust me, I’d give anything to function “normally” on a day-to-day basis.”
♥ I miss me. The old me, the happy me, the bright me, the smiling me, the laughing me, the gone me.
♥ Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It’s always there though.
♥ Your mental health is more important than the test, the interview, the lunch date, the meeting, the family dinner, and the grocery run. Take care of yourself.
♥ You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.
♥ During the depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. 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?
♥ It’s a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor, never knowing when the light will go on.
♥ Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
♥ Sometimes I get so sad. So sad that I completely shut down. I stare blankly at the wall and it doesn’t matter what you say to me. Because at that moment. I don’t exist.
