Suzanne Collins Quotes

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

I probably suffered with depression.

I went through an extreme depression.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.