At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.
I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.
Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.
These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
I've always suffered from depression.
I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.
I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.
I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.
I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?
Once the notion of depression had begun to dominate the diagnostic armamentarium, it became but a matter of time before patients with relatively mild disorders of mood or anxiety would be entered into it.
The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.
A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
Our mental state fuels our emotions, and our bodies reflect those emotions.
