Now, I’m getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don’t need to be depressed.
I’ve cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
I get frustrated but never depressed.
My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I’m probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I’m here, and I’m living.
When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.
Our thoughts really do create our lives. They’ve done a lot of research showing if you’re an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you’re a sad, depressed, negative person.
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 personally can get quite depressed in January looking at the glut of DVDs and new diet and exercise books and apps, and the Instagram posts that come out.
Half the time during the day, I’m just depressed.
I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.
I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.
I’ve had to learn and discipline myself that I’m much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It’s just that simple.
Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It’s the absence of something – it’s cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.
When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.
Ages 18 to 22 is such a hard transition, everyone’s depressed.
I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional – if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.
I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn’t know what was the matter with me. It was as if I’d died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it’s easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness – human goodness – is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
The first rule of personal finance is that it’s not personal and it’s not financial. It’s about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, ‘Well, you have to die some way or another.’ If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
I was depressed at a very young age – mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.
When my parents were like, ‘We’re going to the Northwest,’ I thought, ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me.’ I was so depressed. The cold weather really did not agree with me. When I moved back down to L.A. at 16, I felt like it was home – it was where I belonged.
When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed – but very good at writing emotional songs.
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
The thing I always try to hold onto with ‘BoJack’ and with ‘Flaked’ is that maybe there is a sliver of hope that they are going to turn it around. They are just having a tough time getting there. And that’s the thing with ‘BoJack’ – he is obviously depressed.
I’ll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I’m wired badly, I’d say. I’m just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.
As a child, I loved to sing. When I was 8, my mother sent my brother and me to a summer music theater program in Texas. We did ‘Guys and Dolls’ at the camp, and I was so depressed when it was over. That’s when I realized that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.
I’m depressed when I don’t get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don’t like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.
But here’s the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, ‘This isn’t the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don’t feel happy.’
I know that when I get down or feel alone or depressed, I make music, and it makes me happy.
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
When I’m depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
Lazy doesn’t exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can’t get up off their butt is just a person who’s depressed. It’s usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
If I am depressed, I do not like to talk to my parents or friends, instead I go and sit in a church or a temple which relaxes me immediately.
Women’s emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from ‘pleasantness,’ and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.
Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both… We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, ‘Have a nice day’ or even have one. To be honest, I’ve never heard a Jew say that. We’re just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
I just really like learning. I have to keep using my brain; otherwise, I get depressed.
My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I’m feeling depressed.
I think that people sort of stereotype me as the blonde ‘Baywatch’ girl who’s always in a swimsuit, so, I think, to tell my story – that I got up to 175 lbs., was so depressed I couldn’t get out of bed – will show that life wasn’t always good for me.
I can’t not write, if I don’t then I get really depressed.
I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, ‘Man, I love what I’ve done, and I love the mark I’ve made on rock n’ roll history’… and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, ‘I gotta make a move… do something fresh and new.’
Thank you to everybody who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.
I cite my own example to all those who say they are depressed! I couldn’t even move my hands properly and was given a few years to live. Youngsters need willpower to fight depression.
I didn’t eat for two days when Bill Clinton won, but after Obama’s election, I was genuinely depressed.
Somebody asked me at one stage, ‘Are you depressed?’ And I said, ‘Are you kidding me? I’m not depressed.’ But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn’t realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don’t know how to deal with emotions.
You get terribly depressed if they’re bad for you and if they’re good then you start playing your reviews, emphasizing those things that the reviewer likes.
Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.
I go through spurts of watching ‘EastEnders,’ feeling depressed and vowing never to watch it ever again.
It is impossible to be miserable and depressed whilst whistling.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
I became super stressed, depressed and miserable because I thought I was terrible at my job when I could not perform flawlessly every day, every scene.
I think somewhere along the line probably Tony Hancock did an interview and claimed that he was terribly depressed, and that he was hiding his depression with comedy. So then it’s been used as a template for every comedian since.
There isn’t a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different people, and it’s important that people see that on-screen.
