Depressive – Quotes

By birth and upbringing,

By birth and upbringing, I think I’m emotionally resilient. I don’t feel like I’m a depressive person. Eric Schlosser

At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I’d be able to get … Read more

I don\’t know what

I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. Frank Sinatra

With my art, it\’s

With my art, it’s the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons. Frank Ocean

If I read something

If I read something that’s really intense and depressive, I will face it; I will try – but there’s plenty of times I also run away. I think it’s trying to find a balance between the positive and the negative. They don’t exist without each other. It’s the polarity; it’s two sides of a coin. … Read more

I contemplate the idea

I contemplate the idea that maybe I’m an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I’m a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or … Read more

My mom was a

My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, … Read more

Being in good physical

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is. Chris Pratt

If you’re manic-depressive and

If you’re manic-depressive and you’re functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I’m getting through right now. Carrie Fisher

Despite popular opinion, there

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy … Read more