Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.