Sue Perkins Quotes

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

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

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

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

I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel.

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

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

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.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

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.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

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

I suffer from everyday life.

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