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The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.