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75 phrases and reflections on depression

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The depression is known for being one of the most common and difficult mental disorders to deal with, since people tend to normalize it and forget all the negative effects that they are generating for their lives and how it affects the lives of those who are around them. However, depression, due to its melancholic and sad element, has served as a source of inspiration. for numerous works, perhaps as a form of catharsis for artists who suffered from this disease.

That is why in this article we bring some well-known reflections and phrases about depression and its effect on people.

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Phrases and reflections on depression

These phrases let us see both 'normality' in living with depression and the struggle to leave it behind.

1. Depression is fueled due to unhealed wounds. (Penelope Sweet)

When we do not give importance to healing our wounds, they turn into infinite sadness.

2. The key to change is freedom from fear. (Rosanne Cash)

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Accepting to have a problem is not a weakness. It is the most important step to improve.

3. There are wounds that are never seen in the body that are deeper and more painful than any that bleeds. (Laurell K. Hamilton)

Emotional wounds always keep your pain intact.

4. I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not without hope. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but I am not giving up.

An insight into what depression feels like.

5. Today I am only for sorrows, today I have no friendship, today I only want to rip out my heart and put it under a shoe. (Miguel Hernandez)

Depression makes you want to hurt yourself without compassion instead of seeking comfort.

6. How wonderful my life has been, I wish I had realized it sooner. (Colette)

In illness, people are unable to see the bright side of their lives.

7. One thing is for sure, sitting around and feeling miserable won't make things any happier. (The boy in the striped pajamas)

It can be difficult, but the only way to overcome depression is to want to.

8. Every day is a nightmare that I wake up from when I fall asleep.

You only find comfort when you stop thinking.

9. When you are happy, you enjoy the music, but when you are sad, you understand the lyrics.

Sadness gives new meaning to everything around us.

10. The most terrible of all feelings is to have dead hope. (Federico García Lorca)

When we feel hope is over, there is no reason to get up.

There is nothing that is so intoxicating as that disturbance of the spirit, sadness, which drags man to death itself. (Saint Geronimo)

Sadness and loneliness are very addictive.

12. Noble acts and hot baths are the best cures for depression. (Dodie Smith)

When you start to do small actions, the perception of what we are capable of doing is improved.

13. Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It is the fear of failure, but there is no need to be productive.

The duality that is present in depression disorders.

14. Depression is when you look down and don't see your feet.

In depression, the sadness is so immense that it seems like a bottomless abyss.

15. Our war is spiritual warfare, our great depression is our life. (Brad Pitt)

Sometimes the problem is not what surrounds us, but how we observe it.

16. I hope that one day, this pain will serve a purpose.

A recurring thought in people with depression. And even without it.

17. Getting over depression requires a commitment.

If the person is not committed to the intervention, then he will never be able to recover from his sadness.

18. Depression is a prison in which you are both the prisoner and the cruel jailer. (Dorthy Rowe)

The reality about the power of depression.

19. Happiness consists for me in enjoying good health, sleeping without fear and waking up without anguish. (Francoise Sagan)

A very realistic vision of happiness that not everyone considers.

20. The most terrible type of poverty is loneliness and the feeling of not being loved.

Feeling unwanted leaves a void in the soul that is difficult to fill.

21. Depression is not a direct response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Depression is a series of bad events that have the same effect as a snowball.

22. Depression is rage without enthusiasm.

It is an emotion that lacks intensity.

23. The only thing worse than a child dying is that he wants to die. (Joan Dalmau)

Parents are in a position of despair as they feel useless for not solving the situation of their children.

24. Don't forget that the more you suffer, the stronger you can get; because if you overcome it, you will be much better than before feeling bad.

A great motivational phrase to overcome depression.

25. It has been my philosophy that difficulties vanish when we face them.

The only way to improve is to face what hurts us.

26. Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. (Gloria Steinem)

Depression is a direct attack on ourselves.

27. Sadness is a wall between two gardens. (Khalil Gibran)

The only way to get out of it is to climb that wall.

28. Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. (Mason Cooley)

If you can get out of bed, you can get up from any fall.

29. Depression is the inability to build a future. (Roll May)

Being depressed, people get stuck in time and cannot move forward.

30. No one can judge. Only one knows the dimension of his own suffering, or the total lack of meaning in his life. (Paulo Coelho)

No one person can truly understand the extent of another's discomfort.

31. Depressed people think they know themselves well. But what they don't know is that between their personality and what they see there is a wall called depression.

Depressed people cannot see their own potential.

32. I am happy to feel, although I am usually sad to feel. (José Narosky)

When emotions get out of control, they tend to be upsetting.

33. When you change the way you see things, the things you see change too. (Wayne Dyer)

Depression is nothing more than an alteration in one's perception of reality.

34. There is nothing more depressing than having it all and still feeling sad.

The material will never fill that void within hearts.

35. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. (Marcus Aurelius)

A sentence that is a real sentence.

36. Living in the past only blinds you to the future. (Andrew Boyd)

By holding on to yesterday we cannot see or prepare for when tomorrow comes.

37. The man who is fearless without danger, invents the danger to justify the fear of him. (Alain)

Sometimes people need to find excuses to feel bad.

38. I know what it is to wish to die. What hurts to smile. How you try to fit in, but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to kill yourself on the inside. (Winona Ryder)

Depression is a slow, silent self-murder.

39. That person who is always talking and laughing may cry inconsolably in the dim light of her room.

Remember that not all sadness is seen with the naked eye.

40. Tell me friend, is life sad or am I sad? (Loved nerve)

A constant question on the minds of many.

41. Don't anticipate problems or worry about what might happen - stay in the sunlight. (Benjamin Franklin)

Anticipatory thoughts only cause unnecessary discomfort.

42. It's sad how one day I seem to have everything and the next day I lose everything so quickly.

Many people are not aware of the value of what they own.

43. A person can feel lonely, even when many people love them. (Anna frank)

One of the most frequent feelings in depression.

44. If you cry for not seeing the sunlight, the tears do not let you see the light of the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Sometimes it's just a matter of perspective.

45. The price to get out of depression is humility. (Bert Hellinger)

Accept that you have a problem and learn the lessons of the process.

46. Joy and sorrow. This strange mix is ​​what evokes depression.

In depression there is a host of emotions that seem to make no sense.

47. The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. (Bob Marley)

Sometimes what hurts us the most is remembering when we were happy and knowing that now we are not.

48. Good humor is a tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. (Grenville Kleiser)

Laughing has a healing effect that we sometimes underestimate.

49. Depression is like drowning, except that no one can see you.

A sample of the depth of its intensity.

50. Each sigh is like a sip of life that one gets rid of. (Juan Rulfo)

Over time, depressed people feel the meaning of their lives is lost.

51. I don't want to be free from dangers, I just want the courage to face them. (Marcel Proust)

Having the courage to face our fears, we don't let them control us.

52. I did not remember the reason to live and when I remembered it, I was not convinced. (Joaquin Phoenix)

The solution to depression is not always the same for each person.

53. Depression is the eternal imprint of a blow that was struck to the depths of your soul.

It is not about suppressing the pain you feel, but about finding a way to stop it.

54. Much of what passes as depression these days is nothing more than a body saying it needs work. (Geoffrey Norman)

Nowadays, what it really means to be depressed has been completely altered.

55. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. (Michel de Montaigne)

The magnitude of the impact of the events only lives in our minds.

56. All people have their secret sorrows that the world does not know about and sometimes, we call them cold when they are only sad.

There are people who are distant just so that no one knows their sorrows.

57. I smile and that's not why I'm happy, because sometimes I smile to hide my sadness.

Humor does not always denote happiness.

58. Suffering depression is being dead while you are alive, wanting to leave and summoning up the courage to release the weight of pain. (Diego Digiano)

A very accurate interpretation of feeling depressed.

59. Trips down memory lane are never good when you're depressed. (Stephen King)

Memories, being depressed, are never well received.

60. In large part, you built your depression. It was not given to you. Therefore, you can destroy it. (Albert Ellis)

Depression is something we manufacture and therefore eliminating it is up to us.

61. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true for both men and dogs. (Eric Hoffer)

Depression can arise when people do not feel comfortable being alone with themselves but very much like being isolated from others.

62. I tell women to try not to get depressed, because depression is love's worst enemy. And without love, there is no life. (Tita Merello)

Depression drives love away completely.

63. The personality develops on the basis of sticks and bad experiences, not on the basis of living calm and happy.

We must learn to see bad times only as life lessons.

64. In the shade, away from the daylight, the melancholy sighs over the sad bed, the pain next to him and the migraine in his head. (Alexander Pope)

The melancholy is the favorite state of the people with depression.

65 When I drank the world was still out there, but at the moment it wasn't holding you by the neck. (Charles Bukowsky)

Vices are also a manifestation of depression.

66. Nothing is so insufferable for man as being completely inactive, without passions, without occupations, without entertainment, without effort. Then he feels his insignificance, his insufficiency, his weakness, his emptiness. (José Antonio Marina)

It is when the feeling of helplessness and worthlessness that constantly afflicts the mind that people cease to be interested in life.

67. Joy does not come from having no obstacles in life, but from stumbling over them, falling down, getting up, and overcoming them.

Staying in the abyss is what generates despair.

68. Be careful with sadness, it is a vice. (Gustave Flaubert)

Sadness can be contagious and addictive.

69. The real pain is the one suffered without witnesses. (Marco Valerio Marcial)

Why do we try to hide the pain?

70. I've had many dark nights, of course, but giving in to depression would be a betrayal, a defeat. (Christopher Hitchens)

Depression should never be the end of a hardship.

71. My pain turned to sadness and my sadness to anger. My anger turned to hatred and I forgot how to smile.

Depression is a vicious cycle of negative emotions.

72. You make everyone laugh so you don't get depressed.

Even laughter may be nothing more than a mask for sadness.

73. Desire, accompanied by the idea of ​​being satisfied, is called hope, stripped of such an idea, despair. (Thomas Hobbes)

A great analogy on desire.

74. Unhappy is the one who thinks about her childhood and only evokes memories of fear and sadness. (H.P. Lovecraft)

A happy childhood can change everything in adulthood.

75. Depression and I are friends, but I don't like her company.

You should never be comfortable with sadness.

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