Chris Gethard Quotes

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

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.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

I've always had mental problems, so to speak.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

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

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

When I was a teenager, I battled some severe depression.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

I did not know how to share with someone the fact that I was really, really depressed.