Matt Haig Quotes

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

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

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

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

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

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of unworthiness and shame, which really goes with mental illness.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

Anxiety is a trap; it's not a trend to be followed. It's not supposed to be cool, it's meant to be fixed.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.