Christina Applegate Quotes

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Being alone is very difficult.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.