On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.
Robert M. SapolskyTag: depression
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
Robert M. SapolskyTag: self depression pessimistic
I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.
Stephen FryTag: depression outsider
There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
Nathaniel HawthorneTag: death sorrow depression
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.
John GreenTag: depression
I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll.
"I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama to stop. Nobody would believe me anyway," I whispered. "Nobody would care.
Tag: depression hopelessness
An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.
Barbara W. TuchmanTag: hope depression hopelessness
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
William StyronTag: depression depression-quotes
Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
Tag: sadness death depression sylvia-plath the-bell-jar
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
Laurie Halse AndersonTag: melancholy sadness depression
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